Clément Delangue

clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate! The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talking about the risks of AI. We should. But let's not lose sight of the bigger picture! If we work hard at it, AI will make the world safer, not less safe, just as most major technologies have. We've already seen a glimpse of that: we defended ourselves with AI (more specifically an open model). The same systems that helped stop an AI-powered cyberattack can now help defend against millions of cyberattacks every day, while helping us identify and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. To get there, we need three things in my opinion: - Increase transparency with mandatory trace sharing and incident disclosure for agent cyber-attacks - Keep AI-powered cyberattacks illegal, with meaningful penalties to disincentivize them - Equip defenders with the best AI, especially open models, to reduce the asymmetry of capabilities between attackers and defenders If we get those three things right, AI won't just create new cybersecurity challenges, it will make cybersecurity fundamentally and meaningfully stronger. And that's before considering AI's impact on science, healthcare, education, productivity, and much more. It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

Source context. The original explicitly recommends acceleration after discussing the July attack and an open model used for defense. It treats stronger defensive AI as the response to powerful attacking AI and also invokes science, healthcare and productivity. This is an affirmative pace recommendation, but it does not specify unrestricted acceleration of every frontier training run or abandon safety obligations.

Scope

AI progress in response to autonomous cyberattacks, especially open models available to defenders, with broader scientific and social benefits.

Conditions

Mandatory trace sharing and incident disclosure; meaningful penalties for illegal AI cyberattacks; defenders equipped with capable AI, especially open models.

Stated rationale

The original explicitly recommends acceleration after discussing the July attack and an open model used for defense. It treats stronger defensive AI as the response to powerful attacking AI and also invokes science, healthcare and productivity. This is an affirmative pace recommendation, but it does not specify unrestricted acceleration of every frontier training run or abandon safety obligations.

clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingface and asking to be part of the "embedded evaluators" program that @DarioAmodei just committed to. Let's make AI safer by making it more transparent!

Dario Amodei@DarioAmodei

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must-p…

Source context. Delangue quotes Amodei’s slowdown announcement but his own added text launches the Open Alignment Initiative and requests evaluator access. Quoting Amodei is not verbatim endorsement of every part of his development-slowdown plan. This newer safety support qualifies acceleration but does not independently establish a reversal to PACE.

Scope

Open alignment research and Hugging Face participation in independent embedded frontier-lab evaluation.

Conditions

Alignment should not be confined to a handful of closed labs; requests participation in the embedded evaluators program.

Stated rationale

Delangue quotes Amodei’s slowdown announcement but his own added text launches the Open Alignment Initiative and requests evaluator access. Quoting Amodei is not verbatim endorsement of every part of his development-slowdown plan. This newer safety support qualifies acceleration but does not independently establish a reversal to PACE.