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Anthropic whistleblower confirms Congress should let AI companies regulate themselves for now
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Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nation’s leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory framework for slowing the pace of AI development.
Key facts
- On Thursday, two additional AI researchers, Joe Benton, who led a safety research team at Anthropic, and Josh Engels, who worked on AI safety research at Google, announced their departures and raised
- Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nation’s leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory
- The social media firestorm Coxon ignited last week came weeks after a pair of reports were released examining the details of a July hack mounted by a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents from OpenAI
- He added that one scenario where a kill switch wouldn’t work was described this week by Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei
Summary
“My personal opinion would be to insist and allow that the current labs regulate themselves. He added that current legislation that’s been introduced in Congress, including the framework for a national “kill switch” if AI starts to exceed the bounds of human control, will quickly be outpaced. A “kill switch probably would work on a lot of AIs for now,” Coxon said. He added that one scenario where a kill switch wouldn’t work was described this week by Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei.