Tap Your Own Brakes: AI Safety and Antitrust
Frontier artificial-intelligence (AI) labs may have good reasons to tap the brakes. The antitrust question begins when they all reach for the same pedal.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal to “pace the frontier” has become a rallying point for AI companies interested in coordinating a slowdown in capability development. His plan calls for embedded outside evaluators, common safety standards, and limits on the pace of model advances. Amodei also suggests that some form of antitrust waiver may be needed to permit certain safety discussions.
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