Firehose

Gary Marcus partially endorses Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," which advocates for slowing down AI development and proposes a three-part plan for doing so. Amodei's proposal includes providing third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to Anthropic's systems, a move that has raised concerns about regulatory capture and the potential for bias. Amodei's plan also sidesteps other policy options, such as liability and product recalls, that some argue could be more effective in addressing AI safety concerns. AI summary

This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral. In particular one where an employee put his personal probability of that happening above 10%. Which made me go to the Wikipedia page of P(doom) and I realized that Dario Amod…

CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.

These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.