Anthropic CEO Urges AI Slowdown

It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the pace of model capability, advances to give developers more time to manage safety risks, according to Reuters. In an essay shared on X on Saturday, Amodei proposed embedded independent evaluators with employee-like access, coordination among frontier AI firms on safety standards OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ex-AI chief Elon Musk said they agreed with the proposal. Amodei cited AI's growing ability to improve itself and concerns that it could outpace human control as reasons to slow model development. Concerns about AI risks grew recently after an anthropic researcher resigned, while OpenAI executives called for a coordinated voluntary slowdown, if needed, to strengthen safety measures. Amodei also urged tighter controls on advanced AI chips, model distillation, and theft of model weights. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com