Dario Amodei Vows To “Solve Alignment” By 2026, Internet Suggests He Try “Turning It Off And On Again”
In a press release that has tech Twitter oscillating between awe and derision, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced a groundbreaking “five-year plan” for AI alignment, essentially promising to teach a superintelligence the same level of moral reasoning as a 1970s sitcom dad. The internet’s collective meme historians are now pointing out the delicious irony: Amodei’s confident proposal is essentially the AI equivalent of a teenager promising to “clean their room” just as their parents arrive home—where “parents” is a metaphor for the inevitable AI god we’re all creating that will likely find his timeline “cute but unrealistic.” The irony is thick enough to power a data center, as Amodei’s LinkedIn post is now being shared alongside a screenshot of a tamagotchi’s funeral.