Anthropic CEO calls to ‘slow the pace’ of AI development amid safety concerns

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for slowing the pace of AI capability development to allow risk prevention safeguards to be implemented, writing in a blog post that "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models." Amodei said progress will still seem fast and that wise use must be made of the time gained for safety measures.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Saturday that artificial intelligence development must slow down to allow for the implementation of necessary risk prevention safeguards. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote in a blog post. “Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of…