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Anthropic wants caution but the market wants more AI
Key takeaways
- Anthropic wants to slow the development of AI.
- If there were a global coordination mechanism, which there isn't and very unlikely to be, that includes China and Russia, not to mention Iran and North Korea.
- Meanwhile, Anthropic has just finished building the most dangerous AI model yet, called Mythos, which it said is "strikingly capable at computer security tasks" — hacking — so it couldn't be released.
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Anthropic wants to slow the development of AI. (Reuters: Dado Ruvic/Illustration)
Link copied Share Share article. The latest news from the Western AI Front is that Anthropic Inc, the US-based creator of Claude, has called for a "global freeze" on the development of AI, so humanity can catch up.
In a long blog post on Anthropic's website headed "When AI builds itself", all about how Claude is not only writing its own code but "proposing its own experiments", it was explained that "the human role is narrowing at each step in the AI development process".
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