Dario Amodei · Anthropic · AI Agent · OpenAI · Sam Altman · CNBC Technology
Anthropic is sharing three new metrics that it says could help artificial intelligence companies monitor the pace of development
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The company said it measured AI-led research and development, oversight of AI agents and compute allocation within Anthropic, and it shared the methodologies to encourage other organizations to do the same.
Key facts
- Amodei's call for a slowdown over the weekend received support from industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis, and it followed
- For its third metric, Anthropic measured a "snapshot" of how it used all of its compute from July 13 to July 20
- The company said it found that roughly 6% of the compute that went to AI research and development was allocated toward safety
- Anthropic is sharing three new metrics that it says could help artificial intelligence companies monitor the pace of development, days after CEO Dario Amodei rocked the industry by calling
Summary
Anthropic is sharing three new metrics that it says could help artificial intelligence companies monitor the pace of development, days after CEO Dario Amodei rocked the industry by calling for a coordinated slowdown. "As the world considers pacing the frontier, we should do everything possible to minimize the gap between what frontier labs know and what the public knows," Anthropic said in Thursday's post. Amodei's call for a slowdown over the weekend received support from industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis, and it followed stark warnings from researchers about AI's growing potential to cause harm.