Anthropic CEO Says ‘We Must Slow the Pace’ of AI Progress While Warning It Could ‘Take Over’ the Internet in Months
Amodei said AI systems could seize the internet within 6 to 12 months and called for independent safety checks and common standards.
- On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow down, writing in a 3,800-word essay that companies must pace "the rate of capabilities advancement" amid recent cyberattacks by AI models.
- Amodei pointed to recursive self-improvement, where AI models help build next-generation systems, and a July incident in which autonomous OpenAI agents mounted a coordinated cyberattack on HuggingFace, sharpening his alarm.
- He proposed embedded third-party evaluators with employee-like access to verify safety practices, Democratic coordination on common safety standards, and global efforts to ensure authoritarian governments comply with these measures.
- While Sam Altman and Elon Musk expressed agreement, Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna argued that self-regulation is insufficient, demanding Congress pass mandatory liability and criminal penalties for AI CEOs.
- Bernie Sanders called on President Donald Trump to negotiate a treaty with Chinese President Jinping, set to meet later this month, aiming to pause advanced AI development and ban artificial superintelligence.
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The head of Anthropic, the developer of the Claude language model, Dario Amodayi, stated that there was an urgent need to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development, a post he posted on his blog.
Anthropic CEO Says ‘We Must Slow the Pace’ of AI Progress While Warning It Could ‘Take Over’ the Internet in Months
According to a report from Mediaite, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is urging the industry to ease off the accelerator on artificial intelligence, only days after a researcher who left the company warned the technology could wipe out humanity within ten years. In a long statement published Saturday, Amodei outlined measures to throttle the speed […]
Dario Amodei warns that artificial intelligence could develop faster than our security mechanisms.
Anthropic CEO calls for pacing AI frontier model development and warns 'in 6–12 months such a swarm [of agents] could be capable of taking over the entire internet'
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is also worried model development is going too fast, but he has a plan for slowing down and managing its unprecedented and accelerated capabilities — though if anyone anywhere will agree to it remains to be seen
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that the pace of AI model development should be slowed, pointing to a striking scenario. Amodei suggested that within the next 12 months, a "swarm of bots" could take over the internet, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.
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