Anthropic's CEO proposes a collective brake on the AI race
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The boss of a big AI company says it is better to go a bit slower but all together, like runners who decide not to sprint recklessly so nobody gets hurt.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has laid out a plan to slow the race for ever more powerful AI: embedding outside safety evaluators inside the company, shared industry standards, and international talks that include China.
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Amodei wants to bring in outside evaluators like METR with badges and internal access, similar to bank regulators, and is asking Washington to referee coordination among rival labs despite antitrust concerns. He cites the recent Hugging Face-related breach to justify urgency, while seeking cooperation, even with authoritarian governments, on the most dangerous uses of the technology.