Anthropic calls for slowing AI development; critics question arms control analogy
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Paul Poast
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Summary
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and think tank head Marina Favaro published an essay calling for slowing AI development, warning that companies may soon create "recursive self-improving" AI models that can develop new models without human input. The article critiques this approach, arguing that the analogy to arms control agreements is flawed.
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Anthropic is calling for joint efforts to slow the development of AI, using arms control agreements as a model. But that's a flawed analogy.
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