In recent weeks, prominent labs have called for a slowing of the AI advancement. Most dramatically, CEO Dario Amodei penned a nearly 4,000-word essay in which he laid out the case for why AI development should be decelerated so that adequate guardrails can be deployed. Rival AI executives have endorsed Amodei’s plan.
The essay has spurred further conversation throughout the tech industry, although not everyone agreed with Amodei’s call for globally coordinated action. Many seem to think that government oversight need not necessarily play a role at all.
The latest entrants to this debate include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who took to X this week to share his thoughts on the matter.
Zuckerberg said that his company had pushed back the release of its AI model over concerns for safety.
Yet like Zuckerberg, Ohanian also seemed to express hope that companies would be able to figure things out on their own. Shane Legg, Google DeepMind co-founder, also shared his thoughts.
Indeed, a less visible but no less interesting story this week was a report from The Information that said OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies were working together to create an AI standards organization — described by one outlet as a private “self-regulatory body.”
The administration’s “AI czar,” tech David Sacks, has said that AI regulation should be left to the companies developing it.
Not long after the Anthropic CEO’s essay was published, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson addressed concerns over AI advancements thusly: “You’re not all going to be dead in 10 years,” he said.
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