The tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman have backed a call from the head of Anthropic for the artificial intelligence industry to “slow down” to give safety measures time to catch up.
In an essay titled ‘We Must Pace the Frontier‘, Dario Amodei said he is concerned that since this summer AI has been “advancing drastically faster”.
Given the rate of AI development, Amodei is worried that within six to 12 months it could be capable of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet.
The entrepreneur, whose company is behind the AI assistant Claude and who was previously a senior figure at Altman’s company OpenAI, shared a three-part plan for building the technology at a “balanced rate”.
“I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong,” Amodei said.
