Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development
Dario Amodei says outside evaluators should get employee-like access as Anthropic warns AI 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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Dario Amoday stated that there was a need to slow down the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems due to the risks to humanity.
The CEO of Anthropic has called for a temporary “freeze” in the development of artificial intelligence, warning of uncontrolled systems. The proposal was unexpectedly supported by his major competitors, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The post Alarm bell from the founder of Anthropic – Why he calls for the pace of AI development to slow down appeared first on in.gr.
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