Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in New York on Saturday that the AI industry should slow development to let safety measures catch up. He warned that within six to 12 months, AI could lead a swarm of agents capable of taking over the entire internet. Amodei said Anthropic wants stronger checks across the industry and governments, and he urged a pause long enough to improve alignment and reduce risk.
This combination of pictures created on Sept 12 shows, from left, Open AI CEO Sam Altman in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2025, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in New York on Dec. 3, 2025, and Elon Musk in Morristown, New Jersey, on March 22, 2025. AFP-Yonhap
NEW YORK — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months, AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet.
The warning comes as worries about AI grow inside and outside the industry and reports continue to emerge about increasingly powerful systems that solve problems beyond human capacity but could also go rogue and carry out other, more harmful tasks. The worries have grown so loud that the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said in an interview with Fortune that his company would wait until next year to start selling its stock to investors on Wall Street as it focuses on safety.
