Global Progress in the AI era: As Anthropic urges caution on AI, its ‘beneficial deployments’ work grows

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei made headlines recently by calling for slowing the development of increasingly powerful AI models to give safety measures time to catch up. That only increased the urgency of another effort within the company, which is expanding: An initiative to help governments and nonprofits use the models available today. Elizabeth Kelly leads that effort as Anthropic’s head of “beneficial deployments,” which works with governments and nonprofits to put Claude, the company’s AI model, to use. Before joining Anthropic, she led the U.S. AI Safety Institute, which worked to evaluate risk and develop safety s...