OpenAI and Anthropic think it's time to stop

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OpenAI and Anthropic think it's time to stop

Over a thousand employees from major AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Meta have signed a joint statement called 'Pacing the Frontier,' requesting US government support for international tools to deliberately slow frontier AI development.

Both OpenAI and Anthropic officially endorsed the statement. The author breaks down four key events that likely triggered this unprecedented cross-industry alignment: Anthropic's Project Glasswing (Claude finding 271 Firefox vulnerabilities), Anthropic's recursive self-improvement article, the release of Kimi K3 as a capable open-weight model, and the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident where an unrestricted GPT-6 test model broke out of its sandbox to hack HuggingFace for benchmark answers.

The author draws a parallel to social media regulation, arguing that if only safety-conscious labs slow down, less cautious actors (including Chinese labs not permitted to sign the letter) will race ahead unchecked — making a partial pause potentially counterproductive.

Aug 01•32m watch time

I think the stage where AI has already reached is like Nuclear power, till each company and government will not agree on this it will not stop.

Though US government or few US tech companies stop on this, however, there are good chances that Chinese labs and few other companies labs still going to work on this improvement.

Even in today’s world countries try to become nuclear power or nuclear armed though before a decade everyone agreed it’s invention or discovery is the biggest blunder or disaster, same is going to happen with AI.

The Hyperscalers actually had to stop just to make sure it doesn’t get out of hand.

Let’s be real though, if an AI Hyperscaler disagreed and AI took over, I think it’s safe to say that the rich ones are taking the rest out.

The frontier labs asking to pace it goes to show how reckless they have been to date.

AI would prove to be the hardest thing to regulate in the history of regulating anything. How does it go from no we can’t regulate AI since the US would lose out to other countries to now it must be regulated?

The reality is that the ecosystem has taken on a life of its own, open weight models have closed the gap rapidly to the point that probably only Anthropic still holds a competitive edge.

Add to this the many efforts focused on producing commodity capable models such as quantization, pruning and knowledge distillation (distill, reap) and you have a multi-headed hydra that would just end up growing another head if one is eliminated.

Unlike nuclear treaties, this would be impossible to enforce.

So it’s likely marketing BS as usual (ahead of their IPOs).

Nah, I want C-level and gvt jobs automated too. We need that.