AI researchers call for new tools that can slow automated model development
A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives.
All the document’s 1,134 signatories work at companies that are building frontier AI models. Anthropic PBC, OpenAI Group PBC, Google LLC and Meta Platforms Inc. are among the industry players on the list. The letter was also signed by staffers at venture-backed AI labs such as Thinking Machines Inc. and London-based Inherent Laboratories Ltd.
The initiative’s backers include some of the AI field’s most prominent figures. Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Dario Amodei signed the letter along with several other of the company’s co-founders. They were joined by the chief scientists of OpenAI, Meta’s Meta AI unit and Thinking Machines.
The letter focuses on the efforts of major tech firms to automate their model development programs with AI. The signatories are concerned that advances in this field could give rise to new safety risks.
