Sep. 17 at 12:03 AM
Anthropic’s head of public policy, Sarah Heck, said AI companies cannot be expected to oversee their own safety, arguing that the industry cannot operate on an “honor code” as debate intensifies over regulation and the pace of AI development. Speaking at the Politico Decoded Summit, Heck said Anthropic wants to work with the government because companies “can’t be checking our own homework.”
Her comments follow CEO Dario Amodei’s recent call for AI companies to deliberately slow the pace of model development while maintaining commercial competitiveness and U.S. leadership in AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis have expressed support for Amodei’s proposal.
However, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have questioned the need for an industry-wide slowdown. Huang said speed and safety can coexist, while Zuckerberg said Meta delayed its Muse AI agent for several months to focus on safety and security.
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