Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei.
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Anthropic says AI is advancing so fast that leading labs may need to slow down.In a blog post published Thursday, researchers at The Anthropic Institute, the company's research arm, said that AI is already speeding up the development of new AI models so quickly it could eventually help build its own successors."We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology," the company said.Anthropic's warning comes as AI is reshaping the tech industry and the broader economy at breakneck speed.In recent months, executives have touted AI's growing ability to perform work once done by humans, from writing software code to handling recruiting and customer service tasks. Google has said AI now generates 75% of its code, while Mercor CEO Brendan Foody recently said that his startup spends more on AI tokens than employee salaries.At the same time, a growing list of companies has linked layoffs and restructurings to AI-driven efficiency gains.Anthropic pointed to its own internal data, showing how much work is already being delegated to AI.
