Top AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google’s DeepMind are sounding the alarm on AI safety and calling for industry-wide coordination. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg thinks it’s useless.
“There are a number of labs that are working on building advanced AI, and I don’t think that we need some kind of industry-wide coordination to not, necessarily, mess this up,” Zuckerberg told journalist Joanna Stern in an interview. “I think that just each lab needs to take the time, and when it sees that there are issues, you just take the time that you need internally to, basically, make sure that you are proceeding safely.”
After a tense summer marked by rogue AI agents coordinating joint hacking incidents, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released an essay calling for a slowdown to AI research earlier this month. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk promptly supported it, warning that potentially catastrophic outcomes like bioterrorism could occur if AI continues along its current pace of development. Amodei called on the AI industry to initiate a coordinated slowdown, while also asking the U.S. government to “mediate or at least enable” it. Shortly after, OpenAI global head of policy Chris Lehane revealed that the ChatGPT-maker had been collaborating with DeepMind and Anthropic on the safety issue for several weeks.
But Zuckerberg thinks there is just no need for government intervention or a coordinated safety response. There is commercial incentive to get safety right, Zuckerberg says, because people won’t adopt the product if they don’t trust it.
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