Jack Clark
Proud of this statement from Dario on pacing - as anyone close to the technology knows, AI seems to be on a trajectory to progress far faster than the rate at which society can adapt to its capabilities and risks. AI is an amazingly positive technology - and an incredibly powerful one. For us to truly benefit from it we need to treat it seriously. We need to find ways to slow the frontier of development, such that we can better deal with collective action problems and buy ourselves more time for understanding the properties of these systems and how they need to be handled. On a personal note, as a parent of young children, it is an everyday crazymaking occurrence to reflect on how little the development of literal superintelligence is regulated relative to the food and toys I buy for my children.
Dario Amodei
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier