'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says
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The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO
It would be “good for the world” to slow down the pace of AI development, according to a blog post from Anthropic, which this week began the process of going public with a confidential IPO filing.
“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” stated a blog post written by Anthropic co-founder (and former Reg scribe) Jack Clark and researcher Marina Favaro.
Executing an actual pause would take a negotiation and monitoring effort on par with nuclear accords, including the agreement from all of the frontier AI labs, as well as support from policy makers around the world. Even then,...
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