Anthropic's Dario Amodei Wants to Pump the Brakes on AI, and Here Is What That Actually Means
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei Wants to Pump the Brakes on AI, and Here Is What That Actually Means
Dario Amodei has said out loud what a lot of people in AI have been thinking quietly: it might be time to slow down. The Anthropic CEO this week outlined a plan to deliberately pace the frontier of AI development, and said the company would give third-party evaluators, specifically METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), access to its models to help verify adherence to safety practices.
Key Takeaways
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly called for deliberately pacing AI development at the frontier
- Anthropic will give independent evaluators METR access to its models to verify safety adherence
- Both Anthropic and OpenAI signalled support for slowing development in the same week
- METR specialises in evaluating AI for dangerous autonomous capabilities and misuse potential
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