Anthropic’s Dario Amodei wants governments to have the power to block ‘dangerous’ AI systems
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei is calling on the U.S. government to block the deployment of dangerous artificial intelligence models in the same way as it prevents unsafe airplanes from taking off.
In a new post today on his personal blog, Amodei (pictured) said there need to be mandatory third-party audits of frontier AI systems, and suggested that governments be able to shut them down if any unacceptable risks are discovered. At the same time, he called on the government to provide more economic support to people who are financially hurt by the rise of AI.
Amodei’s AI safety proposal is far more aggressive than what most people have suggested. It exceeds the executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump last week, which mandates that intelligence agencies play a role in testing new models for risks. He suggested that governments should audit new AI models based on the amount of resources thrown into their training process. He proposed there should be a “compute threshold,” and that if any new model exceeds this specified level of compute, it would automatically trigger an independent investigation into its capabilities before it can be launched publicly.
