Anthropic CEO Calls for AI Industry Slowdown

<cite index="20-1,20-3">Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the artificial intelligence industry needs to slow the pace of development for new models, citing growing concerns about "serious" risks to humans. "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," he wrote Saturday in a blog post.</cite> <cite index="19-3">Amodei's comments came days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "gambling with our lives" in the race to develop models capable of self-improvement.</cite> <cite index="22-5">This week marked when the AI safety debate broke into the public consciousness, driven by Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's very public resignation and warning of possible doom.</cite> <cite index="21-5,21-8">OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who owns xAI, quickly chimed in to say they agreed with Amodei's assessment, as pressure builds for improved oversight.</cite> <cite index="22-10">Altman posted that "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier," and said his company would also give access to external evaluators.</cite> <cite index="24-1">In his essay, Amodei said that Anthropic was committing to an embedded team of third-party evaluators "to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes."</cite> <cite index="24-3">Amodei also called for AI companies in democratic countries to coordinate to establish common safety standards and to set limits "on the rate of unchecked AI progress."</cite>