What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are advocating for a more measured approach to AI development, emphasizing the need for third-party safety evaluations. Both leaders clarify that 'pacing' development does not mean halting progress, but rather ensuring safety protocols are integrated into the training process.
Why it matters
As the leaders of the most prominent AI companies call for self-regulation and external oversight, it signals a potential shift in the industry's approach to safety and government cooperation.
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we’ve compiled some of them here.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Amodei’s Saturday morning essay outlined three steps for pacing AI development: embedded third-party evaluators that can verify if a company is adhering to safety practices and commitments and report incidents, coordination between frontier AI companies in democratic countries on standards and limits, and global coordination between democratic governments and authoritarian governments on pacing AI development “to the extent this is possible.” Amodei said Anthropic is “unilaterally committing to the first of these steps.”
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