Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark (middle) cowrote a blog post that is sparking a lot of conversation. Former European Parliament member Luis Garicano (left) and former White House AI czar David Sacks are among those who have weighed in.
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Anthropic wants the world's leading AI labs to come together to consider a potential pause of leading global AI development."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," two top Anthropic officials wrote in a blog post.On Thursday, Marina Favaro, who leads Anthropic's research institute, and Jack Clark, an Anthropic cofounder, suggested that AI labs develop a partnership similar to how countries monitor the proliferation of nuclear weapons while stressing that the world does not have "decades" to wait for such an agreement to come to fruition.Their proposal is off to an inauspicious start, with some in tech characterizing it as a self-serving effort by a leading AI company that has begun the steps toward an IPO.An Anthropic spokesperson told Business Insider the firm is not calling for a pause. Instead, Anthropic wants its leading competitors to have systems in place that would allow for a pause. Given the pace of development, the company wants to study the topic now before such limitations are deemed necessary.Here is what leading people in AI, tech, and politics are saying about the idea of a pause on global AI development:Mitt Romney, former US senator and 2012 Republican presidential nominee
