Do you think if Anthropic (or another leading AGI lab) unilaterally went out of its way to prevent building agents on top of its API, would this reduce the overall x-risk/p(doom) or not?
This means that every AWS customer can now build with Claude, and will soon gain access to an exciting roadmap of new experiences—including Agents for Amazon Bedrock, which our team has been instrumental in developing.
Currently available in preview, Agents for Amazon Bedrock can orchestrate and perform API calls using the popular AWS Lambda functions. Through this feature, Claude can take on a more expanded role as an agent to understand user requests, break down complex tasks into multiple steps, carry on conversations to collect additional details, look up information, and take actions to fulfill requests. For example, an e-commerce app that offers a chat assistant built with Claude can go beyond just querying product inventory – it can actually help customers update their orders, make exchanges, and look up relevant user manuals.
Obviously, Claude 2 as a conversational e-commerce agent is not going to pose catastrophic risk, but it wouldn’t be surprising if building an ecosystem of more powerful AI agents increased the risk that autonomous AI agents cause catastrophic harm.
Probably, but Anthropic is actively working in the opposite direction:
Obviously, Claude 2 as a conversational e-commerce agent is not going to pose catastrophic risk, but it wouldn’t be surprising if building an ecosystem of more powerful AI agents increased the risk that autonomous AI agents cause catastrophic harm.