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In Short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing down AI development, citing risks of human extinction, as lawmakers express concerns over recent hiring standards.
The head of AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has urged for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence models, citing the potential for human extinction. Amodei, in a new interview with Fortune, expressed safety concerns and suggested that current standards are not adequate to push AI capabilities further.
Despite these warnings, Microsoft has published a 'humanist' code of conduct to ensure its models will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown. Amodei also proposed working with democracies to set safety standards and ensuring compliance from Chinese entities.
In a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Senate Democrats expressed concerns over new standards that appear to have been quietly enacted as early as February 2025, with Senator Dick Durbin specifically pointing out the removal of automatic disqualification for applicants involved in bestiality.
What's still developing
- He called independent evaluators "a great idea". 'There is a possibility of human extinction,' former Anthropic employee says about AI Altman sounded similar safety concerns in a new interview, telling Fortune magazine that standards were "not at a place" to push AI capabilities much further.
- An AI researcher who left Anthropic told the BBC that "if we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future".
- “There’s not going to be a material slowdown,” he said.
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- WIREDlink