Is Anthropic hallucinating when it calls for an AI development break?
Any effective guard rails will have to come from the US and China – the leaders in AI research.
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Anthropic warned that a minor error in AI’s alignment could cause the technology to spiral completely out of human control.
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On June 4, San Francisco-based AI lab Anthropic sounded an urgent alarm. Artificial intelligence, it said, has begun building itself. Humans are no longer its primary builders. They are in danger of losing oversight of it.
Anthropic then called for a global pause on the development of the technology, echoing calls made by other tech elites in recent years.
