Anthropic's bizarre call for everyone to slow down on AI is a pipe dream — here's why that will never…
CNN's Wolf Blitzer leveled his inquisitive gaze at me and asked the biggest question in tech, “Is AI an existential threat to humanity?" I smiled confidently and assured Wolf, "No, I don't think it is."
But just days after that TV interview, we have, it seems, ample evidence that one of the industry's leaders and core AI developers, Anthropic, perhaps thinks otherwise, and is now urging not just caution, but a slowdown.
Anthropic is suggesting that all AI developers, policy makers, and others join hands and agree to pause or slow down frontier model development so that we can get ahead of the dangers of recursive development.
In a lengthy blog post, Anthropic executives explain that misalignment between the needs and desires of humans and whatever compels AI to improve itself could result in us losing control of them.
It's a scary thought, and one I hadn't entirely...
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