Anthropic Says World Needs System to Decide on AI Work Pause (2)

Anthropic PBC called for the creation of a system in which governments and artificial intelligence developers collectively decide when to slow work on the technology to stave off the risks it may pose.

“It would be good for the world to have the option to show or temporarily pause” AI work that may be dangerous, the company said in a lengthy blog post published Thursday by co-founder Jack Clark and Anthropic Institute lead Marina Favaro. AI is advancing to the point where the technology can make human work thousands of times more efficient or even replace it, creating a new ...