AI: using fear to encourage a coordinated slowdown
This is not a theoretical problem. According to Wired , OpenAI has in recent weeks asked members of Congress whether a coordinated slowdown by leading AI laboratories would be legal under antitrust rules. Its chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki , himself called in a blog post written on 6 September for people to“coordinate to slow down the future of development ”. It is against this backdrop that the events of the last… few days become particularly interesting. Following the highly publicised resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic – who believes that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade ” – Dario Amodei called on Saturday for a slowdown in the development of the most advanced models. Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis have, with some nuances,…