#Anthropic

Let's all take a moment to understand how self-serving it is for OpenAI, Anthropic and other execs of big hyperscalers to talk of slowing things down. 1. LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down. 2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents. 3. IPOs need hype & puffery; "we are so awesome it could become dangerous" is hype & puffery 4. Cover for real uncontrollable slowing growth as IPOs look to be pushed out

FT: AI stocks slid as frontier labs turned safety concerns into a possible spending slowdown. Over the weekend, top labs (OpenAI/Anthropic) explicitly argued that labs should slow model capability improvements so risk prevention can catch up. Investors are translating that safety discipline into a spending question because slower frontier training can reduce near-term demand for GPUs, memory, networking, and data centers.

Dario Amodei got personal on CBS about AI’s risks, benefits, and the ridicule he faces on social media over safety. "I feel that this is a technology with great benefits and great risks. My father died of a disease, hepatitis C, that was something like 40% curable when he died of it. He wasn't one of the ones who was cured. A few years after, a medicine was invented that made it 95% curable. I myself survived an early-stage cancer that, if I'd been living in 1950, I probably would have died from. So I feel the weight of bringing the benefits of this technology. I also feel the risks. I wake up every day and, you know, I read one of these threat reports, like someone tried to use our model to build biological weapons. Of course, I don't want to be responsible for that, and that's why we have very strong safeguards. Almost every day, I'm made fun of on social media because our model's biology safeguards are too strong. Biology students complain, and they make jokes that they can't use the model. But the reason for that is that we have strong safeguards. I would rather they make fun of me than wake up one day and discover that someone used our model, Claude, to kill a bunch of people. I don't want that. So I feel both sides of it. I feel both sides of the responsibility." ---- From "CBS Sunday Morning" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Sam Altman just said the unthinkable on his Fotune Magazine interview. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind may agree to slow down together rather than race blindly toward more powerful AI. Fortune's Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell: "There's only a handful of you guys, you, Dario, Elon, maybe Zuckerberg, Sundar. Why can't you all just get in a room, get some beers, and figure out how to solve humanity? Like, just get on the same page. I know there's beef, but come on." Sam Altman; "I think that will happen." ---- From "Fortune Magazine" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Sam Altman just said the unthinkable on his Fotune Magazine interview. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind may agree to slow down together rather than race blindly toward more powerful AI. Fortune's Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell: "There's only a handful of you guys, you, Dario, Elon, maybe Zuckerberg, Sundar. Why can't you all just get in a room, get some beers, and figure out how to solve humanity? Like, just get on the same page. I know there's beef, but come on." Sam Altman; "I think that will happen." ---- From "Fortune Magazine" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Dario Amodei got personal on CBS about AI’s risks, benefits, and the ridicule he faces on social media over safety. "I feel that this is a technology with great benefits and great risks. My father died of a disease, hepatitis C, that was something like 40% curable when he died of it. He wasn't one of the ones who was cured. A few years after, a medicine was invented that made it 95% curable. I myself survived an early-stage cancer that, if I'd been living in 1950, I probably would have died from. So I feel the weight of bringing the benefits of this technology. I also feel the risks. I wake up every day and, you know, I read one of these threat reports, like someone tried to use our model to build biological weapons. Of course, I don't want to be responsible for that, and that's why we have very strong safeguards. Almost every day, I'm made fun of on social media because our model's biology safeguards are too strong. Biology students complain, and they make jokes that they can't use the model. But the reason for that is that we have strong safeguards. I would rather they make fun of me than wake up one day and discover that someone used our model, Claude, to kill a bunch of people. I don't want that. So I feel both sides of it. I feel both sides of the responsibility." ---- From "CBS Sunday Morning" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

On CNN, Dario Amodei finally spoke on Jacob Coxon’s 166M+ super viral tweet (the ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher who resigned). "I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him. It’s an interesting resignation because when he left, he said, “I think Anthropic is the most responsible player. I think Anthropic is the most aware of these issues.” He wasn’t calling out us. He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole moving too fast." ---- From "CNN" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned) "We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating." ---- From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

我们必须把握前沿的节奏：我写了一篇新文章，阐述为什么 AI 行业应当放慢脚步，并提出了实现这一目标的三部分计划。 Anthropic 正单方面承诺采取其中的第一步。我们将为第三方评估者提供对我们系统的永久、员工级访问权限，以便他们能够核实我们对安全措施的遵守情况、报告事件，并在训练期间评估模型的对齐情况。 你可以在这里阅读完整文章：https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

我们必须把握前沿的节奏：我写了一篇新文章，阐述为什么 AI 行业应当放慢脚步，并提出了实现这一目标的三部分计划。 Anthropic 正单方面承诺采取其中的第一步。我们将为第三方评估者提供对我们系统的永久、员工级访问权限，以便他们能够核实我们对安全措施的遵守情况、报告事件，并在训练期间评估模型的对齐情况。 你可以在这里阅读完整文章：https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

In 3,800-word essay on saturday morning Dario Amodei is calling for AI slowdown. - “We should also consider pacing based on limiting the ingredients that go into frontier models, such as training compute, the nature of training runs, or internal use of AI to improve AI.” - “Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails.” - Amodei wants rivals negotiating safety rules before legislation passes. He’s asking Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver to enable those talks. “For antitrust reasons, it’s helpful for the US government to mediate or at least enable these discussions — they don’t need to participate, but do need to issue a narrow waiver for certain kinds of safety conversations.” - Amodei wants slower US development and a bigger lead over China. Chip restrictions and protection against model theft are how he connects them. “Pacing within democracies will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes, chiefly the Chinese Communist Party. If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) CCP-associated projects will pull ahead, creating significant national security risk.”

我们必须把握前沿的节奏：我写了一篇新文章，阐述为什么 AI 行业应当放慢脚步，并提出了实现这一目标的三部分计划。 Anthropic 正单方面承诺采取其中的第一步。我们将为第三方评估者提供对我们系统的永久、员工级访问权限，以便他们能够核实我们对安全措施的遵守情况、报告事件，并在训练期间评估模型的对齐情况。 你可以在这里阅读完整文章：https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier