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Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI development

Anthropic CEO calls to slow the race toward AI ‘superintelligence,’ and grants outside evaluators permanent access . Here’s what Amodei is suggesting:

Each US AI company grants ongoing access to embedded third-party evaluators to check compliance with safety commitments, report incidents, ensure new AI models are not misaligned.

All companies in democratic countries building frontier AI models to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress.

The world’s democratic AI powers would coordinate with autocracies – notably China – to control the race. Amodei suggested a baby step could be a narrow agreement prohibiting obviously dangerous uses of AI, such as for the production of biological weapons.

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Bernie Sanders' AI Bill Threatens 20 Years in Prison for Artificial Superintelligence Developers

The legislation would also allow companies to be shut down and create a federal agency to police frontier AI systems.

The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would outlaw AI systems built to exceed human intelligence.

For context, the bill was introduced the same week OpenAI rolled out its GPT-6 Astra model, described by the company as a 'generational leap'. Sanders' office also pointed to an incident from July. It said more than 1,000 OpenAI agents accessed the internet independently, exchanged messages with each other, and got round their own safety restrictions. That lapse, the office said, took engineers n