Anthropic is reportedly rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls - WTVR.com
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Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago amid the CEO's calls to slow down the technology's 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 — and its risks — have been provided primarily by AI companies, which have been encouraged by President Donald Trump's administration to police themselves on matters of safety.It was during the research group's 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 "slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models."Sam McCandlish, one of Anthropic's co-founders, responded to the report Thursday in a lengthy post on X, writing that many of METR's conclusions match his own. "AI is speeding up our research, but it's hard to say exactly how much," he wrote. He also said the company plans to release a report with its own analysis of the speed of AI progress within Anthropic in the coming weeks.McCandlish said this work with METR began "well before and is separate from the embedded third-party evaluators that are part of our commitment to pacing the frontier," but added that "it's a good illustration of why we think evaluators are a good idea."RELATED STORY | Websites shut…
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