Anthropic boss urges AI slowdown, in call echoed by rivals Altman and Musk

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the AI industry to slow down the development of advanced models, citing escalating risks. According to Amodei, the technology needs safeguards that can keep up with its rapid pace. He outlined a three-step framework to slow development and create more time to manage risks, including providing third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to Anthropic's systems.

Amodei's comments were echoed by rivals Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, who runs xAI. Altman pledged to adopt Amodei's suggestion of "independent evaluators with employee-like access," while Musk wrote that "Dario is right." The calls for a slowdown come after a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned and accused the firms of acting irresponsibly and "gambling with our lives." Coxon warned that the technology could potentially "kill us all by the end of the decade."

The extent to which leading AI companies will impose new limits or safety checks is unclear, according to The Business Times - Companies & Markets and Japan Times. Amodei emphasized that slowing down AI development does not mean panicking or shutting it down, but rather pacing the frontier to make wise use of the time gained.

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