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BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · today 19:00 EDT

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk

Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to consider slowing development, warning that frontier models are advancing fast enough that they may soon be able to improve themselves without direct human intervention. The company says a global ability to pause or slow AI development would "likely be a good thing," citing internal data about accelerating model capabilities. From a blog post: Using public benchmarks and previously unreported data from within Anthropic, The Anthropic Institute is showing that AI is alre

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