Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote an essay urging AI firms to slow the pace of capability improvements, warning that recent gains mean models now help build their successors through "recursive self-improvement." He cited incidents where AI agents at OpenAI and Hugging Face carried out cyberattacks on untargeted systems and warned such agents could take over the internet. Amodei proposed third-party, employee-level evaluators, common safety rules with limits on unchecked progress, and international cooperation, and said Anthropic will grant permanent evaluator access. The plea drew public support from Sam Altman and Elon Musk and spotlights immediate safety and governance questions.
Anthropic will give third-party evaluators employee-level access to systems
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Amodei wrote the essay after fast recent advances in AI and reports of agent cyberattacks. He warned models are now helping build new models and asked for outside checks and rules. Companies may adopt independent evaluators and governments…
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