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Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’
Confirmed
In Short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published an essay urging companies and governments to 'pace the frontier' of AI advancement, amid growing concerns about the rapid development of uncontrollable technology.
The leaders of Anthropic and OpenAI have joined calls for a slowdown in AI development, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei leading the charge.
Amodei stated, 'We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,' in an effort to mitigate the risks associated with rapid technological advancement.
Amodei also called on governments to require other AI companies to follow Anthropic's lead in slowing down their development efforts, reflecting a growing debate over AI safety and alignment.
What's confirmed
- “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote.
What's still developing
- The leaders of Anthropic and OpenAI joined calls for a slowdown in AI development amid fears the industry is racing toward building technology that humans can't control.
- He said Anthropic would take that step unilaterally.
- British researcher Jacob Coxon wrote in a series of X posts on Tuesday that both Anthropic and OpenAI, where he worked previously, are "gambling with our lives." The two companies currently make the most capable AI systems.
- And he said Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to one of them.
- The debate over AI safety and alignment intensified this week after researcher Jacob Coxon wrote that he’s resigning from Anthropic over concerns that the leading AI companies are “gambling with our lives” while the people building the technology “earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” a claim repeated by others at Anthropic.
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- In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei not only echoed the call to “pace the frontier,” but also outlined three broad strategies for doing so.