I think I we urgently need to pace the frontier. On the whole this proposal seems very sensible to me and I applaud Anthropic for putting this out and unilaterally committing to the first step.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
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