Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls for Pause in AI Development, Sort Of
After yet another whirlwind week of AI developers making wild claims about how it could kill the entire human race, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a pitch: Let’s slow this whole thing down a little. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” he added. “Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.” Amodei’s proposed plan has three steps, none of which would constitute much of a slowdown on their own.
- ▪After yet another whirlwind week of AI developers making wild claims about how it could kill the entire human race, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a pitch: Let’s slow this whole thing down a little.
- ▪“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” he added.
- ▪“Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.” Amodei’s proposed plan has three steps, none of which would constitute much of a slowdown on their own.
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- ▪ Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI development - Axios — Google News
- ▪ Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down — Bbc
- ▪ Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down — BBC News — World
- ▪ Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown — NYT — Home
- ▪ ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown — The Guardian — World
- ▪ Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
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After yet another whirlwind week of AI developers making wild claims about how it could kill the entire human race, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a pitch: Let’s slow this whole thing down a little. Amodei wrote in a Saturday blog post that while he remains optimistic AI will be the “latest in a long line of technological miracles that have uplifted and ennobled humanity,” researchers must “pace the frontier” due to risks like rogue AI, use for crime and terrorism, and economic…
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