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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Dario Amodei proposes a three-step plan to start slowing down the pace. Or, in his words: "Modifying the pace at the border, developing AI at a balanced pace, seeking to ensure its security, while still achieving its benefits."
Dario Amodei, boss of Anthropic, called on Saturday to slow down the pace of development of artificial intelligence in order to better control its evolution. The message follows the warning of an Anthropic researcher that AI would pose an existential risk to humanity. Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Elon Musk also said they were in favour of a slowdown. - Artificial intelligence: the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk want a slowdown in its devel…
AI industry needs to slow down for safety measures to catch up, Anthropic CEO says
The CEO of Anthropic said on Saturday that the artificial intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned, AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet, among other risks.
Anthropic CEO pitches AI slow-down plan after OpenAI-Hugging Face hack
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling on artificial intelligence companies to slow the development of their most powerful models, arguing that AI’s rapid progress is beginning to outpace the industry’s ability to ensure the technology remains safe. Amodei outlined a proposal he called “pacing the frontier,” which would involve embedding independent third-party evaluators within AI […]
For years, there have been calls for slowing down AI development. With a recent incident as a wake-up call, there is now a first movement among the major developers of artificial intelligence.
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