Samuel argues Anthropic should stop advancing toward RSI
Sigal SamuelVox Future Perfect correspondent
Samuel argues that Anthropic has not shown its safety strategy offsets the harms of accelerating AI. She suggests it should stop pursuing recursive self-improvement. She says stopping need not roll back deployed AI, and some AI may be needed for defense.
“In the absence of such evidence, the “race to the top” logic just doesn’t hold water.”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
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Samuel questions whether competitive development improves safety on balance and advocates stopping frontier advancement.
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Her signed analysis acknowledges Anthropic's safety work before questioning the net effect of its competitive strategy.
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She argues that catastrophic risks weaken the analogy to an ordinary arms race and leave room for coordination with China.
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Samuel condemns Anthropic's continued race toward RSI and advocates a unilateral halt to frontier advancement.
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