Anthropic has called on leading artificial intelligence companies to establish a coordinated system for halting the development of advanced AI models if necessary, warning that rapid progress in the technology could outpace humanity's ability to maintain control.
The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as cutting-edge AI gets increasingly faster at carrying out tasks, "it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause” its development.
Anthropic said its internal research institute plans to explore the issue in collaboration with others and "take actions" to help build the systems for a credible slowdown or pause, without being more specific.
Anthropic rival OpenAI argued for a different approach in a report published Wednesday, saying that "democratic governments - not private companies acting alone - must ultimately determine the rules, safeguards, and accountability mechanisms.”
"Our view is that decisions about the pace of AI innovation should not be left to any one lab, company, or special interest group,” it said.
