Dario Amodei · Sam Altman · Anthropic · OpenAI · China · Elon Musk · BBC Technology
However some observers suggested that Amodei's post was less about safety than about consolidating control over AI technology
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"Dario makes the case to stop open source and concentrate enormous technological and economic power with Anthropic," wrote Chamath Palihapitiya, investor and co-host of the tech podcast "All-In".
Key facts
- Clement Delangue, the CEO of the AI platform Hugging Face, said he was launching a new project called the Open Alignment Initiative, adding he wanted to be among "embedded evaluators" that Amodei
- The bosses of two rival AI firms, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk, have both said they agree with Amodei
- Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans
- Musk, whose SpaceXAI makes the controversial chatbot Grok, once called Anthropic "evil" but has changed his tone since signing a $15bn deal to sell compute capacity to Anthropic
Summary
The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. In an essay, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks associated with it were "serious" and companies and governments must be given time to address them. The bosses of two rival AI firms, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk, have both said they agree with Amodei. Jacob Coxon told Laura Kuenssberg that people working at AI companies were "genuinely frightened. genuinely concerned about the fate of humanity in the next two years". "It's not at all an exaggeration to say that the people who are involved with both founding these companies and building the tech believe there is a possibility of human extinction," Coxon said.