Comment by gaigalas

The idea of slowing down is not new, nor novel.

But why should he decided when to slow down?

Most people who have worries about AI for all sorts of reasons (most of them not-Skynet related) wanted to slow down way before this.

Instead of "hey, look at this brilliant new idea I just had on my own to slow down" maybe we should have gotten a "sorry everyone, the folks asking for a slow down earlier were right and visionaries, and we were foolish".

So, you can't blame whoever says this is bullshit, because it has bullshit all over it. I like Anthropic's products, and it seems the best of the bunch in regards to alignment, but Jesus these stunts are terrible.