Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says - The Killeen Daily Herald
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FILE - Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York, Feb. 26, 2026.
FILE - Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2025.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago amid the CEOâs calls to slow down the technologyâs pace of improvement, according to an analysis released Thursday by an independent monitoring group.
Anthropic invited researchers from the Berkeley, California-based nonprofit, Model Evaluation and Threat Research, to review its internal data and interview staff as it prepares for its Wall Street debut with debate swirling over the potential for AI models to elude human control with catastrophic consequences.
The findings are significant because details about the technology â and its risks â have been provided primarily by AI companies, which have been encouraged by President Donald Trumpâs administration to police themselves on matters of safety.
It was during the research groupâs assessment period that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to slow its work so safety measures can catch up. In a Sept. 12 essay responding to mounting concerns about runaway AI, he urged the AI world to âslow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.â
Sam McCandlish, one of Anthropicâs co-founders, responded to the report Thursday in a lengthy post on X, writing that many of METRâs conclusions match his own. âAI is speeding up our research, but itâs hard to say exactly how much,â he wrote.
The San Francisco-based company is planning to go public later this month in what could be…
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