Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development
Amodei said third-party evaluators should monitor frontier AI firms as he warned a rogue agent swarm could take over the internet within 6 to 12 months.
- 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 Dario Amodei has called on AI companies to consciously moderate the pace at which they expand the capabilities of AI models.
New York, Sep 12 (EFE).- The executive director and co-founder of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, called this Saturday for a slowdown in the pace at which the capabilities of artificial intelligence models (AI) are being improved, warning that technology is moving towards a "recursive self-improvement" dynamic that threatens to cause cybersecurity catastrophes [...] Entry Anthropic's executive director calls for an immediate slowdown in the development…
Dario Amodei expresses concern about whether humans will be able to maintain control over AI models capable of improving themselves
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called on AI companies to consciously moderate the pace at which they expand the capabilities of AI models. "We must slow down the pace at which we improve capabilities. Progress will still seem fast, and we must use the time we gain wisely," writes Amodei in an essay.
The development of artificial intelligence is too fast and security measures are no longer enough. The head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, warns against this. According to him, the pace of development has accelerated significantly in recent months and over the next year, artificial intelligence may acquire capabilities that will pose a significantly greater risk than today. Amodei therefore calls on companies developing the most advanced models to …
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