Beware of Industry Leaders Demanding Regulation
\n\nA cabal comprised of some of the biggest players in the artificial intelligence industry has discovered a potentially lucrative application for human intelligence: persuading Washington to regulate the sector and hold down potential competitors.
\n\nOver the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for slowing the development of advanced AI, embedding outside safety evaluators inside leading laboratories, and establishing common standards with government help. Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed the push. There’s also been talk of antitrust waivers to permit competitors to talk to each other about the new rules of the AI road.
\n\nThe warnings accompanying these proposals are alarming. Last week, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon announced his resignation, accusing the company and his former employer, OpenAI, of “gambling with our lives.” He said people building AI privately believe it could wipe out humanity before the decade ends.
\n\nA researcher still inside Anthropic publicly backed him. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” wrote Evan Hubinger, the company’s alignment science lead. He put his personal estimate of that risk at greater than 10 percent within the next decade and acknowledged that researchers lack a solution for…
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