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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Is ‘pacing the frontier’ about safety or strengthening monopoly? Decoding Anthropic CEO’s call for AI slowdown
Days after Anthropic published a threat intelligence report highlighting alarming misuse of AI, its CEO published an essay proposing an AI slowdown, however, concerns have been raised that this proposal is not just about safety but also about bolstering duopoly of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Anthropic CEO Urges World To ‘Slow The Pace’ Of AI Development
Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder, Dario Amodei, states that 'a team of embedded third-party evaluators' must be put in place to curb AI's development, or else an AI 'swarm' botnet will take over the entire internet in '6-12 months'
Following serious security incidents caused by the loss of control of artificial intelligence agents being tested, several bosses of the US giants in the sector have pronounced themselves for a pause in research and for the creation of safeguards, while the regulation by the states remains very insufficient.
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