Amodei argues that pacing AI development means giving companies time to align and safeguard models with third-party verification, not halting progress.
To be clear, pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress, but ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models, and for third party evaluators to confirm this,
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Amodei writes in his essay that AI development should remain accountable to the public interest rather than being captured by any political or commercial alliance.
ensuring that AI development remains accountable to the public interest, not captured by any particular political or commercial alliance.
Amodei says he is willing to be mocked for Claude's strict biology safeguards rather than risk Claude being used to cause mass casualties.
I would rather they make fun of me than wake up one day and discover that someone used Claude to kill a bunch of people.
Amodei says nothing he says in DVQ talks counts as a decision, so he can speak freely without staff acting on offhand remarks.
The two rules of DVQs are that, one, nothing I say is an actual decision. That allows me to just speak freely, you know, without worrying that if I, you know, if I briefly mentioned doing X, that 20 people will go off and do X, it's like the CEO said it, we're going to do X
Amodei commits to being totally honest with Anthropic employees, framing the DVQ as a relationship of trust.
The second is that I'm just, I'm totally honest with the company. It's a conversation of trust. It's a relationship of trust,
Amodei has warned that AI could push the US unemployment rate as high as 20%.
Last year, CEO Dario Amodei said unemployment in the US could be affected enough that the national jobless rate might reach 20%