Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same  —  I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right”  —  Top executives at three of the nation's leading AI labs are calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence.  —  The comments are a rare display …

Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months  —  The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.

Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks “to be part of the ‘embedded evaluators’ program that Amodei” committed to  —  It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingface and asking to be part of the “embedded evaluators

Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify  —  Leaders of the world's biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it's time to slow the development pace of their most advanced …