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Anthropic urges global pause in AI development, citing risk of systems outpacing human control

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The creator of the Claude chatbot has indicated that a temporary pause in the AI race would likely be advantageous, and cautions that highly advanced models are beginning to display traits that could make them increasingly challenging for humans to manage.

  1. US
    Anthropic
    1. The evidence suggests that the human role is narrowing at each step in the AI development process.
    2. We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable.
    3. Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures.
    4. We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.
    5. If systems are capable of fully building their own successors, the ways we secure them, monitor them, ‌and shape their ‌behavior all grow much more ​important.
  2. US
    OpenAI
    1. Our view is that decisions about the pace of AI innovation should not be left to any one lab, company, or special interest group.
  3. US
    Jack Clark
    Anthropic
    1. All of this has been done before in other domains, and it may need to be something we do in the domain of AI.
    2. We've done this before. In the height of the Cold War, under highly tense situations between rivalrous countries, they found ways to stabilize aspects of the nuclear arms race.
    3. How do you maintain control over fleets of scientists that are much, much larger and much faster than ones you've had before?
    4. When I look down at the car we're driving, all I have is a gas pedal. I don't have a brake pedal, and surely at some point in the future we might want that option.
    5. Full recursive self-improvement also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems.
  4. FR
    Nicolas Papernot
    OpenAI
    1. Anything connected to the internet is now at risk because of how low the cost has become to mount these cyberattacks.
    2. That old laptop you have in your basement that you don't check on regularly doesn't seem like a very high-value target, but it can be used as a launch pad to attack these higher-value targets.
    3. I think it's really important that people understand that it's not just the biggest, most powerful language models that pose the security concerns.

sources

  1. 1.CNN
  2. 2.Hindustan Times
  3. 3.The Straits Times
  4. 4.France 24
  5. 5.CTV News
  6. 6.Al Jazeera
  7. 7.Arab News
  8. 8.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.US Foreign Policy
  2. 2.US Economy
  3. 3.Tech industry
  4. 4.Social Media
  5. 5.Artificial Intelligence
  6. 6.Robotics

countries

  1. 1.ChinaCN
  2. 2.CanadaCA
  3. 3.FranceFR

organizations

  1. 1.Anthropic
  2. 2.OpenAI
  3. 3.xAI
  4. 4.Future of Life Institute
  5. 5.SpaceX
  6. 6.White House
  7. 7.Alphabet Inc
  8. 8.Meta
  9. 9.University of Toronto

persons

  1. 1.Jack ClarkUS
  2. 2.Marina Favaro
  3. 3.Elon MuskUS
  4. 4.Anderson Cooper
  5. 5.Donald TrumpUS
  6. 6.Nicolas PapernotFR

technicals

  1. 1.Claude Mythos
  2. 2.Claude
  3. 3.ChatGPT
  4. 4.Cold War
  5. 5.Mistral
  6. 6.Silicon Valley
Anthropic urges global pause in AI development, citing risk of systems outpacing human control