AI Developers Are Asking for Someone to Stop Them. The Warnings Show a Growing Safety Crisis.

Source: International Business Times

Warnings are coming from inside OpenAI and Anthropic, where scientists and executives are calling for institutions to establish limits that individual laboratories may be unwilling to impose on themselves. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images The companies developing the world's most powerful artificial intelligence systems are increasingly warning that the technology could become a tangible danger to humanity without stronger safeguards, while the competitive pressure to build more capable models makes slowing down a difficult choice for any one company. The chorus of warnings from inside OpenAI and Anthropic is growing.