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Dario Amodei, who co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday. His appeal for a pause follows months of escalating concerns across the technology industry. nyti.ms/4AatwIK

Desktop machines costing <$20K are increasingly able to run powerful AI models. They can't do everything a cloud-based AI can do, but they make slowing research much harder. And it would require international standards & enforcement. And trust. Which is in very short supply.