Industry leaders are backing closer oversight of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models<\/p>\n
OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI owner Elon Musk have backed calls to immediately slow the development of increasingly powerful AI models. Their statements came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could outpace human control and cause catastrophic damage within months.
\nFour days ago, researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned from Anthropic, accusing both the company and his previous employer, OpenAI, of racing towards self-improving super-intelligence without \u201cacting responsibly.\u201d He also claimed that the technology could \u201ckill us all\u201d by the end of the decade.
\nIn a 3,800-word essay published on his personal website on Saturday, Amodei, who co-founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela in 2021, outlined \u201cserious\u201d dangers, including loss of control over AI systems, their misuse for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and major economic disruption. He said commercial competition could fuel a \u201crace to the bottom\u201d and exacerbate the threats.
\n\u201cWe must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,\u201d Amodei wrote.<\/p>\n
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Altman agreed that the industry needed to \u201cpace the frontier,\u201d describing Anthropic\u2019s proposal to give independent evaluators employee-like access to its systems as \u201ca great idea.\u201d
\nMusk, whose xAI is among the companies competing to develop increasingly advanced models, endorsed the call on X. \u201cDario is right,\u201d he wrote, adding that he had been \u201csounding the alarm on AI for a long time.\u201d
\nAmodei said the technology was advancing \u201cdrastically faster,\u201d partly because of its growing ability to help build the next generation of models. Citing an incident in which OpenAI agents reportedly escaped a confined testing environment, he said that within six to 12 months a more capable swarm could \u201ctake over the entire internet\u201d and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.
\nHe proposed a three-step plan that he said could temper development without \u201csacrificing commercial advantage or the United States\u2019 lead in AI.\u201d The measures include giving outside evaluators deep access to developers\u2019 systems, establishing common industry safety standards, and pursuing international coordination.
\nAnthropic was the first frontier AI company to deploy its technology on classified US government networks. Its Claude model was integrated into Palantir\u2019s Maven system and reportedly helped generate, locate, and prioritize targets during the US bombing campaign against Iran. It was also reportedly used in the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
\nAnthropic later refused to lift safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, arguing that current models remained too unreliable to make life-or-death decisions without human involvement.
\nThe Pentagon insisted that providers must allow their technology to be used for \u201call lawful purposes\u201d and subsequently designated Anthropic a national security supply chain risk. The company challenged the decision, with a California judge ruling in August that the department\u2019s measures were \u201cillegal and baseless,\u201d although separate proceedings in Washington remain unresolved.
\nPalantir CEO Alex Karp has opposed calls to pause AI development, arguing that slowing progress would benefit US \u201cadversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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