Sigal Samuel
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
Samuel questions whether competitive development improves safety on balance and advocates stopping frontier advancement.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
Samuel condemns Anthropic's continued race toward RSI and advocates a unilateral halt to frontier advancement.