AI Briefing1,200 AI Industry Experts Urge Pacing of AI Development
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1,200 key personnel from major AI companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind have called for government intervention to pace the speed of AI development.
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A statement signed by over 1,200 key executives and experts from major AI labs, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, and Google DeepMind's Head of AI Safety Anca Dragan, has been released.
Titled 'Pacing the Frontier', the statement urges the U.S. government to establish tools and frameworks to control the pace of AI development, in case AI development spirals out of control.
This move has the following characteristics:
- Unusual cross-industry consensus: It is highly unusual that personnel from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google DeepMind—companies locked in fierce commercial competition—have jointly spoken out.
- Emphasis on regulation and safety: The statement contains warnings about the pace of technological advancement outpacing the ability to maintain safety controls.
- Call for government role: Beyond mere self-regulation, it calls for the establishment of substantive policy mechanisms that can slow the pace of development when necessary.
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