As competition in the artificial intelligence sector intensifies, OpenAI and Anthropic are increasingly warning about the potential dangers of advanced AI systems even as they push ahead with developing more powerful models in a race for technological supremacy.
Critics say it amounts to "fear-mongering," or a calculated move to win over investors.
Both San Francisco companies – makers of ChatGPT and Claude – are focused on the same scenario: so-called recursive self-improvement, a stage where AI systems could essentially design and train the next generation of AI with little human involvement.
Anthropic called that scenario plausible but uncertain last week. OpenAI went further Monday, predicting it would arrive by March 2028.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? OpenAI treats it as a goal, seeing it as an automated researcher that could speed up scientific discovery.
