Assistant Technology Minister Andrew Charlton has warned the public against taking tech companies’ calls for a pause in AI development too seriously.
His comments come after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the tech industry to slow the development of frontier AI models, citing concerns about growing risks.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Elon Musk both supported this approach.
Amodei warned that if AI development continues at its current pace, a swarm of misaligned AI programs could coordinate to take over the internet within six to 12 months using a network of rogue bots.
However, Charlton warned that people should not place too much weight on commentary from these tech companies, given their “extremely strong financial incentives” to continue developing AI and making money….
