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

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a public appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to "slow down," proposing a three-part plan and committing Anthropic to the first step: giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify safety measures, report incidents, and assess model alignment during training. Amodei outlined the plan in a social media post linking to an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier.

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‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
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The Guardian Technology In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

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 lays 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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Key Terms Explained #

Anthropic An AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.

Artificial Intelligence The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.

Training The process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.

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