So earlier, I had to improvise b/c the "evil germs" (bad guys) we created via arts/crafts didn't have an aircraft of their own. Guess who mounted them on a space projector as a rocketship...ME๐
P.S. My boy loved the idea โค๏ธ
Anthropic just called for a global pause in AI development. Axios senior tech policy reporter Ashley Gold, co-author of the AI+ Government newsletter breaks down what that actually means, and why one of the world's top AI companies is the one asking for the brakes, right as it heads toward a trillion-dollar IPO:
The thing Anthropic is warning about, @ashleyrgold explains, is AI that rewrites itself:
"What it would look like is these AI systems making new versions of themselves without any human input and then at that point if they are running on their own on a computer system or on someone's phone they could maybe do some mechanisms that we are not ready for them to do yet."
For now, she emphasises, people are still the ones at the controls:
"The idea now is that humans are in charge of how these AI systems improve themselves. Humans get to decide what they want to do to make these algorithms and these models more sophisticated."
What's new is the trajectory Anthropic has put on the table:
"What Anthropic has described here is a process in which the AI gets better and better to the point where it improves itself and they think that that is a little scary and something that the whole world should know about."
And the reason to say it now rather than later:
"Because if we know about it now maybe as a society we can decide to slow AI research down."
That's when the ABC News anchor pushed on the optics. Anthropic is one of the top AI companies in the world, widely expected to go public at a valuation north of a trillion dollars and it's the one urging everyone to hit pause. So what's going on behind the scenes?
Gold offered two ways to read it.
The cynical one:
"This is a ploy to get other leading AI labs to slow down their own development so that nothing stands in the way of Anthropic being the number one AI company as they head towards an IPO."
She pointed out that David Sacks, a White House adviser, had made roughly that argument on X in recent days.
The safety one:
"This is how Anthropic has played it from the beginning. They have always wanted to be honest about what they're seeing their technology can do and they don't want anyone to be surprised when it sort of reaches the masses."
And her bottom line, which deliberately doesn't pick a winner:
"At the end of the day, this is a company that is trying to go public and is trying to make money. So you have to sort of weigh that when you're trying to read the tea leaves of these announcements."
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