I strongly agree with the high-level point that conditional pauses are unlikely to go well without planning for what employees will do during the pause.
A nitpick: while (afaik) Anthropic has made no public statements about their plans, their RSP does include a commitment to:
Proactively plan for a pause in scaling. We will manage our plans and finances to support a pause in model training if one proves necessary, or an extended delay between training and deployment of more advanced models if that proves necessary. During such a pause, we would work to implement security or other measures required to support safe training and deployment, while also ensuring our partners have continued access to their present tier of models (which will have previously passed safety evaluations).
While we would obviously prefer to meet all our ASL-3 commitments before we ever train an ASL-3 model, we have of course also thought about and discussed what we’d do in the other case. I expect that it would be stressful time, but for reasons upstream of the conditional pause!
I strongly agree with the high-level point that conditional pauses are unlikely to go well without planning for what employees will do during the pause.
A nitpick: while (afaik) Anthropic has made no public statements about their plans, their RSP does include a commitment to:
While we would obviously prefer to meet all our ASL-3 commitments before we ever train an ASL-3 model, we have of course also thought about and discussed what we’d do in the other case. I expect that it would be stressful time, but for reasons upstream of the conditional pause!