Anthropic calls for pacing frontier AI development
Anthropic CEO, communicating the company’s stated approach in a public essay.
“We must pursue RSI very carefully, if at all.”
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Direct public essay by Anthropic’s CEO. It sets out an industry-pacing proposal and says Anthropic will give third-party evaluators permanent employee-level access; the statement is a commitment, not evidence that the measures have been implemented.
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Amodei’s essay argues that AI can be beneficial but that accelerating frontier capabilities may outpace the ability to manage safety risks.
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The essay proposes permanent external evaluation access and broader coordination among frontier-AI developers and governments.
How this statement is classified
The statement conditions further recursive-self-improvement development on greater caution and describes a safeguard commitment. It does not establish that the measures are implemented or independently prove their effectiveness.
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