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1,100 AI employees jointly signed a letter to Washington: It’s time to put the brakes on AI development. According to Business Insider, more than 1,100 employees from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta jointly signed an open letter calling on the U.S. government to control the speed of AI development.
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1,100 AI employees jointly signed a letter to Washington: It’s time to put the brakes on AI development. According to Business Insider, more than 1,100 employees from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta jointly signed an open letter calling on the U.S. government to control the speed of AI development. This initiative, called "Controlling the Frontier," targets the serious lag in security and governance systems in the current AI arms race. The core issue focused on in the open letter is "automated AI development" - that is, the "recursive self-improvement" ability of future AI to develop and improve AI systems on its own. Anthropic has said that its Claude series models are quickly approaching this threshold. The letter warns that the development speed of AI capabilities may accelerate rapidly, beyond the ability of humans to understand or control these systems. It calls on the U.S. government to support international cooperation, develop necessary technology and governance tools, and consciously control the cutting-edge process of automated AI development. Executives collectively endorsed, Altman's attitude reversed. The lineup of people who signed this open letter can be called the "all-stars" of the AI industry - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and two co-founders, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pahotsky, Meta chief scientist Zhao Shengjia, and Google DeepMind AI safety and alignment leader Anka Dragan are all on the list. OpenAI and Anthropic later responded by posting on the The reversal of attitude of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is particularly eye-catching. In an interview with the "Invest Like the Best" podcast, he said that perhaps now is the time to "control" the pace of AI development, allowing society to adapt to new capabilities and establish protective mechanisms. But he also emphasized that this approach should neither feel like regulatory capture nor collusion among cutting-edge laboratories. And just in 2023, faced with an open letter that proposed a similar proposition of "slowing down AI development," Altman refused to sign on the grounds of "lack of key technical details." From avoiding signing in the past to openly supporting it now, this change itself reflects the profound changes in the AI industry's perception of security risks. via AI News (author: AI Base)