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What changedCoxon’s prescription is becoming more concrete. Nasha Niva’s account of his Wired interview says he wants OpenAI and Anthropic to begin with an agreement not to pursue recursive AI self-improvement in the near term, then widen that into an international pact governing the pace of frontier development.
He reportedly argues that oversight would require governments to know where powerful computing resources are and who controls them, potentially through a CERN-like international institution for AI. That is considerably more specific than asking laboratories to slow down and hope everyone behaves.
The account also describes the strategy Coxon says labs are considering: deploy groups of increasingly capable models to work on AI safety, then use their results to train subsequent systems. His objection is that developers still cannot guarantee those systems will reliably follow human intentions.
Coxon reportedly calls Anthropic a private, unofficial Manhattan Project and regards it as more safety-conscious than OpenAI, but says no company should control technology this consequential. These remain Coxon’s proposals and risk judgements, not established forecasts or agreed company policy. WittyWires could not verify the original Wired interview.
Sources and evidence- Nasha Niva’s account of Coxon’s Wired interview: Coxon reportedly proposes that OpenAI and Anthropic first agree not to initiate recursive AI self-improvement in the near term, followed by a broader international agreement governing the pace of development.
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