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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Edward Helmore

‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

A man in a suit speaks into a microphone.
Dario Amodei said that AI development, if left unchecked, ‘could outrun our ability to understand and control’ it. Photograph: Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters

The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps.

In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which he laid out how Anthropic would provide “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training”.

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