What Casey Newton misunderstands about powerful AI

Casey Newton, whose fiancé works at Anthropic, writes in response to Mark Zuckerberg: On Sunday night, HBO aired the third-season finale of House of the Dragon, the stuffy and unrelentingly bleak prequel to Game of Thrones. The show takes place in a world where one great house holds a near-monopoly on a superweapon — dragons — and thus rules the world. … In Westeros, no one is confused about what…