Anthropic cofounder wants brake pedal for AI, says youth can keep up with pace by getting a hobby

Key points

• Just after Anthropic demanded the ability to pause AI development, warning that future AI systems could become capable of designing, building and training their own successors with little or no human involvement, the company's co-founder has reiterated the call for stronger safeguards.
• Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said the AI industry needs a way to slow down development if necessary, arguing that current AI progress is accelerating without sufficient checks in place.
• "You want the option to be able to take your foot off the gas and put your foot on the brake," Clark said.
• "Right now, it's like the AI industry has a gas pedal, but it doesn't have a brake pedal." The warning is notable because it comes from one of the companies building some of the world's most advanced AI models.
• Anthropic is the creator of Claude, a chatbot that competes...