Two words that often end up in the same sentence are Armageddon and AI. In truth, AI is a blessing and a curse.
Could it eliminate jobs? Certainly? Could it also save someone’s job by rewording a harshly-directed e-mail message that might get one fired? Absolutely.
Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodi, is taking it upon himself, and his hand-picked “task force”, to make sure, AI does not ruin our world. Just recently, Amodi argued that leading AI firms should commit to allowing “embedded third-party evaluators” from a nonprofit called Model Evaluation and Threat Research,(METR).
Who are members of MERT? His friends, of course. And, with them, he wants to pace the frontier. In fact, Modi has come up with his own Three-Step Plan:
. Embedded Evaluators. Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes.
For “safety and alignment work”.
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