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327 Anthropic CEO Floats Idea of Giving AI a 'Quit Job' Button

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/13/2025 18:02 EDT

Anthropic CEO Floats Idea of Giving AI a 'Quit Job' Button

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks they might find unpleasant. Amodei made the provocative remarks during an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, acknowledging that the idea "sounds crazy."

"So this is -- this is another one of those topics that's going to make me sound completely insane," Amodei said d

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