Anthropic warns that AI could soon escape human control

3 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by anonfunction

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laweijfmvo

7 hours ago

  > The industry is much closer to self-improving AI than previously expected, they warn.
Uh, no. Maybe we’re getting close to AI-assisted AI research, but nothing is going to happen unless a human presses the buttons.

  > So tech companies should consider slowing or pausing frontier AI development to allow time for researchers to gain a better understanding of the potential societal harms self-improving AI could unleash.
Ah, so they’re stuck and they want to slow their competitors down while they think of something else.