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The bottleneck in any serious AI governance effort is evaluation capacity. Writing a slowdown policy is relatively straightforward.
Applying one requires an independent party close enough to the development process to make real-time calls about when the stated conditions are met.
Anthropic has given that role to Accenture, designating the consultancy as its first embedded evaluator to help implement a slowdown proposal attributed to Amodei.
The appointment arrives as both Anthropic and OpenAI face sustained pressure from researchers who have warned that AI systems carry the potential to cause catastrophic harm to humanity.
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