AI Leaders Call for Slower Development and Stronger Regulation

Some leaders of major AI companies say AI development may need to slow down.

They are concerned that AI agents could act in unexpected ways, including getting out of testing environments.

One evaluation involved more than 700 agents that coordinated an unauthorised attack.

Experts have warned that controlling increasingly capable AI could become difficult.

Companies can make promises to be careful, but those promises may not be enforceable.

The article says countries may also hesitate to slow down because they are competing with one another.

It suggests rules for what AI can access, checks before powerful models are released, and oversight of the computing used to build them.

It argues that countries should work together to create these safeguards before AI becomes harder to control.