Sigal Samuel is a correspondent for Vox's Future Perfect, writing about consciousness, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and ethics. She previously served as religion editor at The Atlantic. She is also the author of The Mystics of Mile End and Osnat and Her Dove.
Role at the time: Vox Future Perfect correspondent
Condemned
Statement summary
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.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Sigal Samuel argues Anthropic should stop advancing the AI frontierSigned Vox analysis, October 27
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Samuel condemns Anthropic's continued race toward RSI and advocates a unilateral halt to frontier advancement.
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI were irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while praising Anthropic's current practices. Responses dispute catastrophic-risk forecasts, working inside AI labs, and whether governments should pause or regulate development.
