Anthropic whistleblower says Congress should let AI companies regulate themselves until a regulatory body is established

Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon on Sunday called for Congress to allow the nation’s leading frontier AI labs to regulate themselves while lawmakers come up with a long-term regulatory framework for slowing the pace of AI development.

“My personal opinion would be to insist and allow that the current labs regulate themselves. I do think that the people running the labs, especially their recent communications, are completely genuine. They would like to slow themselves down,” Coxon told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

He added that current legislation that’s been introduced in Congress, including the framework for a national “kill switch” if AI starts to exceed the bounds of human control, will quickly be outpaced.

A “kill switch probably would work on a lot of AIs for now,” Coxon said. “Although I think it’s important to remember, it’d be quite a lot of switches. We have a lot of — our data centers are pretty big. It’s not the easiest thing in the world, but definitely doable while it’s constrained to one sort of physical location.”

He added that one scenario where a kill switch wouldn’t work was described this week by Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei.

“Like Dario said…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business