Anthropic[1] have a massive conflict of interest (making money), so their statements are in some sense safetywashing. There is at least a few years worth of safety work that can be done on current models if we had the time (i.e. via a pause): interpretability is still stuck on trying to decipher GPT-2 sized models and smaller. And jailbreaks are still very far from being solved. Plenty to be getting on with without pushing the frontier of capabilities yet further.
Anthropic[1] have a massive conflict of interest (making money), so their statements are in some sense safetywashing. There is at least a few years worth of safety work that can be done on current models if we had the time (i.e. via a pause): interpretability is still stuck on trying to decipher GPT-2 sized models and smaller. And jailbreaks are still very far from being solved. Plenty to be getting on with without pushing the frontier of capabilities yet further.
And the other big AI companies that supposedly care about x-safety (OpenAI, Google DeepMind)