Anthropic CEO confirms it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
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Dario Amodei proposed a three-step plan to ‘pace the frontier’ of AI development.
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First is the emergence of recursive self-improvement, or RSI, in which AI systems train the next generation of AI, leading to rapidly accelerating capabilities
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Dario Amodei proposed a three-step plan to ‘pace the frontier’ of AI development
Of course, Anthropic’s Claude was also responsible for a series of rogue AI hacking incidents that have recently put the company under the spotlight
Summary
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its “adherence to safety practices and commitments.” In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to “pace the frontier”, jargon that simply means to slow the pace of training and development to give companies time to build safeguards and regulators to evaluate models. Amodei says that giving external evaluators wide-ranging access is the first step, and one it is taking now unilaterally. This content isn't visible due to your cookie preferences. The third step would be the most challenging, getting authoritarian governments like those in China and Russia to agree to slow development and adopt a global set of AI safety standards.