SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

verdverm

I for one am glad to see society moving from deference to skepticism of these valley elite

iAMkenough

How long until the President of the United States threatens to pull licenses for NBC over their anti-AI viewpoint?

barbazoo

> The uploader has not made this video available in your country Copyright is another threat to humanity.

tptacek

This is the best thing Jane Wickline has done. I worried about whether she was on the bubble because she's so situational (I think that's a good thing), but clearly she's got staying power.

TheAceOfHearts

I generally don't think SNL is very funny but I think it's quite socially healthy that they make fun of the political and economic elites. I wonder if we mapped out their targets if there would be any glaring omissions that would stand out. This video didn't make me laugh but I appreciate the flexing of the first amendment. They should continue with other AI-related figures.

bitwize

When Dario talks to himself sotto voce and then answers himself in a raspy voice, Gollum-like, made me lose it. I once encountered a severely cognitively deficient individual on the bus who calmed himself in the exact same fashion. It's almost a perfectly succinct psychological snapshot of the character they're trying to create.

sippingabonedry

Is this supposed to be funny? Hard to comprehend how we've gone from Norm MacDonald being so relentlessly bold he was fired, to this sterility, in 30 years.

gib444

Her character's voice at times reminds me of that Rick and Morty court room sketch. NSFW. Pretty hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vN_PEmeKb0

chews

I urge you to urge me to stop is critical Super Dario

Chance-Device

It’s not funny. It could be, Dario is idiosyncratic enough they could have done a really good send up of him, this just wasn’t it.

jihadjihad

I know it’s a little OT, but I keep seeing the same misquotation all over the place. Right at the beginning Michael Che refers to the claim that “there’s a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity within 10 years.” But that isn’t what the often-misquoted current and former Anthropic employees said. They said it was a 10% chance of it happening by the end of the current decade [0], i.e. by 2030, not 2036. 0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/anthropic...

AtlasBarfed

Hey how about we go back to LLM/AI being a simple knowledge request service? You have a model trained on data, you request a text or media response from that knowledge model. No agents. And if someone loops the response into an agent, well, then they are legally liable for personally doing that.

aleksandrm

Why is this on the front page of HN?

monkaiju

Pretty funny tbh, it is amazing these clowns have so much influence over such large investments...

starkd

How did everyone forget how to be funny? It's like there's a formula that's been patented and hidden away so no one else can find it.

lostmsu

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Chance-Device

This one’s better. The UK delivers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7gPGHx7sYNk&pp=ygUSc25sIHdlZWt...

nunez

I listened to the interview that Dario did with Anderson Cooper after seeing this video. "Nah, this is slapstick; she was clearly trying for laughs though the Gollum thing was absolutely hilarious." But no. She ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED. I know Dario is a very smart Dude, but he gives heavy SBF vibes on camera.