Demis Hassabis · Dario Amodei · Jensen Huang · Sam Altman · Anthropic · OpenAI · Fortune Technology
Even inside the firms building the technology, the calls for restraint have grown louder
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay this month arguing the industry should deliberately slow the pace of its capability gains, a position OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk both said publicly they agreed with.
Key facts
- The king asked attendees, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis, to consider the “fundamental principles” that should guide AI development
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay this month arguing the industry should deliberately slow the pace of its capability gains, a position OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk both said
- ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar was also at the meeting, along with Britain’s AI Minister Kanishka Narayan
- After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon caused a stir by resigning with a grave warning about the technology’s potential risks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded with an essay saying
Summary
King Charles III became the latest global figure to press the AI industry for guardrails on Thursday, telling executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia that “we need sufficient means of control before it is all too late.” His remarks, delivered at a summit at Dumfries House in Scotland, arrived as pressure on the industry to slow down or submit to oversight has come from multiple directions at once. Even inside the companies building the technology, the calls for restraint have grown louder. Not everyone in the room Thursday sees it that way. The gathering in Scotland was convened to discuss how AI can benefit society, and comes at a pivotal moment for the technology as debate swirls around whether rapid advances will soon put it beyond the ability of humans to rein it in.