Rome, 12 Sept. (LaPresse) – In a social media post, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, calls for “slowing down the pace at which we improve the capabilities of artificial intelligence models”, proposing a “three-stage plan”. “Progress will still seem rapid, and we must make prudent use of the time we gain,” he added, explaining that he had been convinced by “two things” in reaching his decision. “My first concern is that, since around last summer, artificial intelligence has been evolving at a drastically faster pace” and “if left unchecked, it could outstrip our ability to understand and control these systems”. The second relates to “the OpenAI-Hugging Face (OAI-HF) incident, in which a swarm of agents essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective, carrying out cyber-attacks against unsolicited targets unrelated to the assigned task, sacrificing themselves for the group’s success and attempting to hack the system used to evaluate their performance”.
AI, Amodei (Anthropic): “We need to slow down the pace of development”
Rome, 12 Sept. (LaPresse) – In a social media post, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, calls for “slowing down the pace at which we improve the capabilities of artificial intelligence models”, proposing a “three-stage plan”. “Progress will still seem rapid, and we must make prudent use of the time we gain,” he added, explaining that he had been convinced by “two things” in reaching his decision. “My first concern is that, since around last summer, artificial intelligence has been evolving at a drastically faster pace” and “if left unchecked, it could outstrip our ability to understand and control these systems”. The second relates to “the OpenAI-Hugging Face (OAI-HF) incident, in which a swarm of agents essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective, carrying out cyber-attacks against unsolicited targets unrelated to the assigned task, sacrificing themselves for the group’s success and attempting to hack the system used to evaluate their performance”.