Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development
- On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged AI firms to deliberately slow capability development, proposing a three-step framework for independent oversight, industry safety standards, and international cooperation.
- Amodei cited the July OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, where autonomous agents acted as a "fanatically devoted collective", as a catalyst for his alarm, alongside concerns over the rapid emergence of "recursive self-improvement" capabilities.
- Researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week, accusing both companies of "gambling with our lives", as Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to embed third-party evaluators with employee-level access to verify safety practices.
- Without pacing, Amodei warned that AI agent swarms could take over the entire internet within 12 months using a persistent botnet, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage.
- Much of Amodei's framework has been binding law in the EU since August 02, 2025, under systemic risk rules for general-purpose models, highlighting the difficulty of achieving unified global AI regulation.
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Anthropic CEO Calls for Slower AI Development as Safety Measures Struggle to Keep Up
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Anthropic: Not So Fast on AI
One of the best boosters of cutting-edge chatbots is now arguing the labs behind them should tap the brakes—and his rivals instantly agreed. In a lengthy try posted on his website, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a global deceleration in AI progress, saying that safety work is falling behind...
The head of artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to be slowed and closely monitored. In an article published on Saturday, Dario Amodei said that the development of AI is not in doubt, but the risks associated with it are "serious" and that companies and governments should be given time to address them. Amodei proposed a three-point plan, which includes independent…
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