Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs
Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labsAI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves. It’s important to note that we would expect these numbers to shift if there were coordination on pacing the frontier, as called for by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. We plan to embed independent third-party evaluators from multiple organizations at Anthropic, and give them access to internal processes, systems, and data comparable to what internal risk assessment teams have.
- ▪Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labsAI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
- ▪It’s important to note that we would expect these numbers to shift if there were coordination on pacing the frontier, as called for by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
- ▪We plan to embed independent third-party evaluators from multiple organizations at Anthropic, and give them access to internal processes, systems, and data comparable to what internal risk assessment teams have.
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Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labsAI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves. As the world considers slowing the pace of frontier AI development, the public needs more information.In this post, we lay out measurement tools that can illuminate three critical aspects of AI development:The extent to which AI is building the next version of itself, as opposed to being built by humansOur ability to oversee and intervene in actions that AI agents take on Anthropic’s systemsThe resources that power the development of more capable modelsWe also provide a snapshot of these metrics from inside Anthropic.
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