[potsandpans]

> We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. [1]

First, I want to state up top that I don't personally agree with any legislation that seeks to ban or limit access to frontier llms.

Having said that, it's difficult to not have a somewhat glib reaction to this news. Surely, if leadership believes what is written above then they are happy with this outcome. Ignoring all perverse incentives or potential market manipulation that might be going on from this current administration, on it's face it's a genies wish granted, "your models are so dangerous that the world should pause development? done. You may start pausing development."

1- https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...

[s3p]

That is literally not at all what this regulation does. This regulation does not pause development. This is designed to make sure non-US citizens cannot do work with/on this model. This is stupid because Anthropic never once said this is what they wanted. They said there should be a global effort undertaken for everyone to take a coordinated approach to slowing down development. They never said "please please make it impossible for Anthropic to develop models while letting everybody else develop what they want"

[potsandpans]

Oh, is that literally the case? Thanks for literally explaining it to me.