[0:00:00] A major developer of artificial intelligence, Anthropic, says its latest, most advanced AI systems are beginning to show signs they could escape human control. Anthropic is currently the world's most valuable AI company, having leapfrogged its competitor, OpenAI, recently reaching a valuation of over a trillion dollars. Already, its popular chatbot, Claude, is operating on code that the system itself wrote 80% of.
[0:00:29] A blog post on Anthropic's website says if it were responsible, possible rather, to effectively slow the development of this technology, to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing. Speaking to the BBC, the co-founder of the company, Jack Clark, says there needs to be a way of slowing the development of artificial intelligence. You want the option to be able to take your foot off the gas and put your foot on the brake.
[0:00:57] Right now, it's like the AI industry has a gas pedal, but it doesn't have a brake pedal in the car. And what we're saying is we want to do some of the work required to build that brake pedal so we in the world have an option.