On one hand, conducting a high-profile fundraising for its IPO, while on the other hand, proposing to halt AI development: Anthropic is just playing it safe with PR.
According to Dongcha Beating monitoring, Anthropic, in its report "When AI Builds Itself," proposes establishing a "verifiable coordinated pause mechanism" globally based on the Nuclear Arms Control Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The report explicitly opposes unilateral suspension of development and emphasizes that only under globally verifiable conditions can cutting-edge labs synchronize the brakes.
However, technically, coordinated braking is fundamentally unworkable. While nuclear arms control can rely on satellites watching missile silos, GPUs are small in size, easy to conceal, and capable of distributed computing. To verify whether others are secretly training, the only way is to implement invasive monitoring of all GPUs, power grids, and data centers worldwide. Comprehensive monitoring is not only impractical politically but also equivalent to advocating for computational power authoritarianism.
Against the backdrop of unattainable technical verification, the proposal for a coordinated pause seems more like a "safety disclaimer." Just on the eve of releasing the report, Anthropic, with a valuation of nearly a trillion dollars, completed a $65 billion financing round and filed for an IPO. Anthropic sets the braking condition as a globally unattainable verification, paving the way for its own indefinitely training while also passing on the responsibility for unstoppable development to a yet-to-be-established regulatory mechanism.
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