OVER 1,000 employees at cutting-edge AI companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, signed a petition Tuesday calling on the US government to help slow down the release of the most advanced AI models.
The petition, titled “Pacing the Frontier,” requests “that the US government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who did not sign the petition, argued in an interview published Tuesday that developers of artificial intelligence models might need to voluntarily pump the brakes on their rapid advances to give society a chance to catch up.
Among the signatories were the head of research at OpenAI, the strategic lead of Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, and the chief scientist at Meta AI. “The world’s leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems,” the petition reads.
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