We strongly agree with this letter’s premise: as frontier AI capabilities advance, it is increasingly important that AI labs proceed with caution, even when this comes at the expense of speed.
Paced development will be most effective if it's backed by independent oversight of frontier AI. Companies won't want to exercise sufficient caution without confidence that their competitors are doing the same. Independent auditing can help provide that assurance.
More soon on how these goals could be operationalized.
NEW: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind staff are circulating a letter asking the US government to support a mechanism that could help “deliberately pace” AI development if needed, bc of risks of the technology becoming out of control
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