Anthropic details practical metrics to help monitor the speed of AI development

Days after Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei rocked the artificial intelligence world by calling on leading model makers to coordinate on the slowdown on the pace of development, the company has shared three new metrics that should be measured to enable this. In a blog post today, Anthropic said it is already measuring AI-led research and development, oversight of autonomous AI agents and compute allocation, and then detailed the exact methodologies it’s using so that other frontier labs can measure them too. In doing so, it helps to flesh out a three-step plan for a coordinated, industry slowdown that Amodei published at the weekend. “As…