Aaron Levie
Good post. Don’t agree with all of it, but it represents many of the actual practical realities for the general path forward in frontier AI whether we like it or not. At the level of capability we’re seeing from models there will inevitably be some form of coordinated self-regulation of the industry; that’s generally a good thing. The big question will be if everyone can agree to what that is. However, the way things are headed politically there’s a chance that the labs won’t even get a say in it. And then the bigger question yet is do all the countries participate or not. Any “slow down” hinges on broad participation, which from a game theory standpoint isn’t likely until the risks are more severe and obvious. Expect this to be pretty messy for a while.
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