An advocate for AI safeguards says the industry appears to have come to an inflection point following whistleblower Jacob Coxon’s warnings about the dangers of the technology.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday urged his peers in the field to slow the pace of progress to ensure the technology has necessary safeguards. The suggestion was quickly embraced by his two key rivals, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceXAI founder Elon Musk.
“It’s no secret that they don’t really like each other that much. When they all agree on something, we should all take it very seriously,” said Riki Parikh, policy director for The Alliance for Secure AI. “I think we saw this week there was a real sea change, a turn of the tide here.”
Amodei’s call to pump the brakes also follows a series of highly publicized incidents of AI models going rogue during what Parikh calls a “tumultuous summer.”
“Thankfully, there was no catastrophic incident,” he said. “But we saw what we feared, of these models and these agents scheming and getting out of their sandboxes and doing things that were not in the interest of humans.”
Parikh praised the tech firms for the way they have responded to breaches but says the federal government should take a more central role in regulating AI.
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Ankit Jain, CEO of the AI-driven Infinitus Systems, tells “NewsNation Prime” said a system of checks and balances appears to be emerging. He said he supports building controls into artificial intelligence but stresses the technology can help humankind and possibly cure diseases.
“I have an optimistic view of AI, as long as we’re able to secure it and not get to the point where we regret having such a big technology unlocked and unleashed in the world,” he said.