SF-based Anthropic says the most powerful AI models are showing they could escape human control. The company is calling for a global freeze on development to give society time to catch up and make sure the right safeguards are in place.
They’re not actually worried about AI gaining sentience. They’re bullshitting. A better question is, why are they bullshitting? And I think the answer is some combination of:
Free advertising for their company.
To lobby for laws that:
Pull the ladder up behind them;
block Chinese AI from competing with them on their own turf.
They’re not actually worried about AI gaining sentience. They’re bullshitting. A better question is, why are they bullshitting? And I think the answer is some combination of:
Everyone stops developing but them.
But more likely they’re playing out the marketing angle that omg they’ve made something so smart it frightens them