A week after a doomsday warning from an Anthropic researcher, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has proposed a plan to ‘pace the frontier’ of AI development. The proposal focuses on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries. However, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has already offered pointed pushback.
Meanwhile, the podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane are questioning whether companies can agree on what slowing down means and who gets to police it. The debate also includes a boardroom coup at WordPress parent Automattic and a couple of the week’s biggest deals.
The conversation around AI safety is far from over, with many pondering the feasibility of a unified approach. Can AI leaders truly find common ground, or will the path forward be fraught with conflicts of interest?
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