CEO of major AI company calls for ‘global pause in AI development’ to address growing threat to humanity
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a “global pause in AI development” to address safety concerns regarding the rapid advancement of AI systems. He expressed a concern that these systems may soon be capable of self-improvement without human oversight. He calls it “beyond human AI.”
Anthropic owns the AI chatbot system known as Claude.
The fear is that AIs will soon be able learn to rewrite their own code. They would be able to generate new knowledge, as opposed to just mimicking human knowledge, and act on their own. In short, they will no longer be under human control.
Mr. Amodei has stated:
