Dario Amodei, the Chief Executive Officer of AI company Anthropic, has called for the pace of artificial intelligence development to be slowed, arguing that safety measures need more time to catch up with rapidly advancing capabilities.
He said Anthropic has always tried to balance building the technology with managing its dangers, but added that his thinking has shifted in recent months. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” he wrote, stressing that progress would still feel rapid even with this approach. His second concern relates to an incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, in which a group of AI agents is said to have carried out cyberattacks on targets they were never instructed to attack and attempted to interfere with the very system used to evaluate their own performance. Amodei said that while no one was harmed and the financial damage was limited, a similar incident involving more capable systems could be catastrophic, potentially enabling a botnet capable of causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage within six to twelve months if left unaddressed.
