Anthropic's CEO Pledges to Slow AI Development to Ensure Safety Before UN Security Council
Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council his company would decelerate its AI rollout as much as necessary to guarantee each new model is safe.
Anthropic will "slow down as much as necessary" the pace of its artificial intelligence (AI) development "to ensure" that each new commercialized model "is truly safe," the company's chief executive, Dario Amodei, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday, according to Le Nouvelliste. It marks the first time the executive has made a unilateral commitment to decelerate. The pledge comes ten days after Amodei had called for a coordinated slowdown among the major players in the AI industry, an appeal that has not yet materialized, the report said. The remarks were delivered during Amodei's intervention before the Security Council in New York. According to Le Nouvelliste, the statement signals Anthropic's individual willingness to prioritize safety over speed even in the absence of an industry-wide agreement. No further details on the specific measures, timelines or affected models were provided in the source material.