How Anthropic Pushes AI to Its Limits in the Name of Safety

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In order to guard against bad actors using its artificial intelligence models to take over computers or use them to create bioweapons, startup Anthropic has a team of researchers push its chatbots to their limits. WSJ tech reporter Sam Schechner explains how Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team aims to make AI safer by asking it to do dangerous things. Plus, Chicago is trying to become the Silicon Valley of quantum computing with a new tech hub on the city’s South Side. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon Q Business is the generative AI assistant from AWS, because business can be slow, like waiting through mud.
0:07.4	But Amazon Q helps streamline work so tasks like summarizing monthly results can be done in no time.
0:12.7	Learn what Amazon Q business can do for you at AWS.com slash learn more.
0:26.6	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, December 18th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:33.7	Chicago, Illinois, home to deep dish pizza, the bears, and maybe soon, quantum computing?
0:38.1	We'll hear how the region's business and political leaders are laying the groundwork to make the Windy City a hub for developing this cutting-edge technology. And artificial
0:43.3	intelligence startup Anthropic was founded in part with an eye on making AI safe. But in order
0:49.1	to do that, the company tasks an internal team to push its models towards dangerous behavior.
0:54.6	We'll find out how they do it and how AI companies assess risk as the tech continues to advance.
1:03.3	But first, an old steel mill on Chicago's south side could one day become the Silicon Valley of
1:09.1	quantum computing, a technology that relies on
1:12.1	quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that regular computers struggle with.
1:16.9	Instead of using bits, which only ever have two states, zero or one, quantum computers use
1:22.3	qubits, which can be zero, one, or even both at the same time.
1:30.2	Researchers have been working on quantum computers for years,
1:34.8	but Illinois leaders like Governor J.B. Pritzker are making a multi-million dollar bet that Chicago will be the center for this technology.
1:38.0	And WSJ Pro Enterprise Technology Bureau Chief Stephen Rosenbush says companies from IBM to
1:43.9	startup Cy Quantum are signing on.
1:46.7	He spoke to my colleague, Bell Lynn, about how this research hub is coming together.
1:51.0	You write that Chicago is kind of diving headfirst into quantum computing. Why is it doing that?
1:57.5	The answer may be someone has to. Why not Chicago?
2:00.8	Chicago has played such a huge
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