Cohere CEO says calls for coordinated slowdown amounts to 'cartel' behaviour
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- Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez criticizes calls to slow AI development, arguing it empowers a Silicon Valley 'cartel' and companies spread fear to entrench power.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocates slowing AI development to allow time for risk prevention, citing recursive self-improvement and a cybersecurity incident involving OpenAI agents.
- Amodei proposes third-party safety evaluators, standards on progress rates, and possible U.S. antitrust waivers for coordination.
- Gomez supports independent reviews but rejects Amodei's proposals, suggesting an international framework for AI harms, more transparency, and truly independent testing.
- Experts like David Duvenaud and Gillian Hadfield highlight valid concerns about loss of control and the need for coordination, while Yoshua Bengio and PM Mark Carney urge government involvement.
- China's Global Times views Amodei's proposals as a 'silent AI cold war' targeting its development, amid competition from Chinese open-weight AI models.