Sarah Heck calls for federal testing and pacing safeguards
Anthropic’s public-policy chief, writing on X.
“The government has a critical role to play here, including blocking the sale of the most advanced chips to adversarial nations like China, enacting a national law requiring testing of frontier models, with the power to block the most advanced models that prove to be unsafe.”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
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Reporting
Axios reports reactions to Amodei’s AI-pacing proposal (opens in a new tab)Coverage of public responses to Amodei’s proposal, including statements by Sarah Heck and Elon Musk.
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Axios reporting on public reactions to Dario Amodei’s proposal to pace frontier-AI development. The relevant X posts were not directly accessible in this research pass.
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Amodei’s essay proposed pacing frontier-AI development while safety and governance measures catch up.
After the quotation
Axios reported Heck’s response. Direct retrieval of the original X post was unavailable in this research pass.
How this statement is classified
Heck expressly supported safety measures directed at advanced models, supporting the concern about pacing and safeguards under discussion.
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