What if Anthropic unilaterally paused capabilities development right now?
In their new post on recursive self-improvement, Anthropic argues that a pause in frontier AI development is needed, but unfortunately, they can't pause on their own, because of less cautious actors:We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. ...A meaningful slowdown or pause would require multiple well-resourced labs at or near
By Karl von Wendt