An Anthropic employee's 2-sentence quote crystallizes the state of AI confusion at work

• An Anthropic employee spoke about AI leaving them in a state of confusion about their job.
• Anthropic on Thursday called for a coordinated slowdown in AI development among frontier AI labs.
• The new technology is turning workplaces upside down, slashing jobs and employee perks.

Thursday’s blog post was written by staff from The Anthropic Institute, an arm of the company that publishes research and advisories on the impact and risks of powerful AI systems. In the post, which talked about AI developing to a point where it could improve itself, the institute called for a slowdown in AI development.

“If systems are capable of fully building their own successors, the ways we secure them, monitor them, and shape their behavior all grow much more important,” the institute said in the blog post.

It urged a coordinated “meaningful slowdown or pause” of AI labs developing frontier models, which would “enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up” with AI advancements.