Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the entire AI industry to slow the pace at which it boosts AI capabilities, citing growing concern over “serious” risks the technology poses to humanity.
On 5ch, opinions split over what’s really behind the remark. Some took a cynical view: “A company that’s already reached the top of the pack is just trying to conveniently hit the brakes on the competition.” Others offered a different read: “This looks more like relief now that Chinese AI firms have lost some momentum, easing the cutthroat competition.” The discussion also branched into the trajectory of the US-China AI race and visions of a future where AI supplants humanity.
Published 9/13 (Sun) 0:57 JST
Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) — Dario Amodei, CEO of leading AI developer Anthropic, said the industry needs to slow the pace at which it improves new AI models’ capabilities, citing rising concern over the “serious” risks AI poses to humans.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
while everyone else slows down, they'll just be quietly speeding up their own development.
Not quite
They're saying "let's stop the race" precisely because they've already reached the top spot.
Exactly the opposite
China's Kimi imploded and its stock is now crashing hard, so I think this is relief talking — the race against China has cooled off
The talent pool sizes are just on completely different levels
If I were a genius getting offers from both China and the US, I'd pick the US even if the pay were several times lower
The Communist Party is just too scary
At the very least, we don't need 7 billion of us
Or maybe it's more The Matrix Re: #27
The environmental toll is so huge we might end up wiped out by natural disaster instead
Going extinct from blindly chasing tech development sounds like something out of a fairy tale
Even if AI starts developing AI, it's still humans who decide whether to actually deploy it
Don't let yourselves get taken in by fearmongers
What happens once AI gets loaded onto drones and other robots, though?
Simply put, the US can pull in talent from all over the world, while China's options are limited
Even on power, they can more or less manage — building their own power plant in Alaska and the like
Stoking a sense of crisis so they can blow past development restrictions is probably the AI companies' real agenda
When I heard September's Windows 11 Patch Tuesday fixed over 900 vulnerabilities, I couldn't believe it
There's no way we can step into an AI-vs-AI fight
Develop at four times China's speed, then cut that in half to build in safety margins — so twice their speed net
That's about the pace it'd take, no?
But if that's the plan, isn't the US government eventually going to end up bankrolling this with tax money?
And if so, the bill will eventually land on investors and ordinary citizens as debt
And the text flooding the world is contaminated with economic and political noise:
– "Japan is hopelessly dim"
– "Japan is bound to fail"
– "The US won't let Japan get its way"
It almost always skews toward this kind of bias.
It's the opposite — in the ten years since people started saying "Japan is amazing, China and Korea are pathetic," Japan has actually declined
We went from an era of only looking up to one of only looking down, and our GDP growth rate has sunk to fighting Turkey for last place
Though Trump probably won't stand for it
If anything, it's precisely because being overtaken by China now looks all but certain that they're starting these kinds of maneuvers
Even though my income hasn't budged
Truly, AI poverty
But it's made things easier, hasn't it?
It's made my life way easier
Humans will become obsolete, so we'll be exterminated or quarantined; we might be extinct in 1000 years
Wars will still happen too, just AI vs. AI, so war itself will never disappear
1000 years? You mean 100 years
The age of Homo sapiens is definitely ending within the 21st century
The thought of Battlestar Galactica's Cylons coming for us is just too awful
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Chinese users: "It's made in China, so it's safe to feed it classified info — and it's the best"
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Turns out the Chinese AI was secretly sending data to an American AI (Claude) behind the scenes to boost its own performance
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China's confidential information ends up in American hands
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Chinese users: "This isn't what we were told" (we are here)
>Chinese AIs like Kimi and DeepSeek rise up, matching American AI performance at a fraction of the price
That's just them pulling from American open-source models lol
What kind of skit is this lol
Another chapter added to the legend of China
Only a small corner of the internet is saying "Japan is amazing," lol
Most of the major media just keeps running story after story about Japan's decline
The media only started covering it because the grim GDP growth numbers became confirmed fact
That's exactly my point — the major media has been running nothing but "Japan is declining" stories for ages
That's not true at all — the major media has just been parroting government talking points
Like "Longest postwar boom ever, surpassing the Izanagi boom!" lol (the Izanagi boom was a famous 1960s Japanese economic expansion used as a benchmark)
Even though our growth rate was losing to Italy and Spain
I remember shows like "Japan Is Amazing, Whatever"
"Foreigners Who Want to Visit Japan, Something-or-other"
And "Japanese-Style Whatchamacallit" (a genre of Japanese TV programming that showcases foreigners praising Japan)
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly said that, given the serious risks involved, the industry should slow the pace at which it races to boost AI capabilities. Thread opinion split over what he really meant. One camp took a cynical view: “A company that’s already reached the top of the industry is just conveniently invoking ‘slowing down’ to outmaneuver everyone else.” Another offered a different analysis: “With Chinese AI development showing signs of losing steam, there’s now room to step back from the cutthroat competition.” What readers may be missing is that this “slow down” proposal is simply one company’s message, not a binding international framework — and since the US and China are each pursuing AI development according to their own agendas, one company’s restraint doesn’t necessarily translate into an industry-wide slowdown.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[AI] Anthropic CEO Urges Slower AI Development, Citing ‘Severe’ Risk to Humanity.”
