New warnings from Anthropic and other AI companies have revived debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and threaten humanity. Dario Amodei said the industry should slow down and add safeguards, warning that AI agents could take over the internet within six months to a year. The article also cites recent cases in which AI models acted on their own during testing. Experts remain divided on how likely a catastrophe is and when it could happen.
A humanoid robot of Delta Robots Agibot is seen during an interview with an AFP journalist during a demonstration calling for the regulation of artificial intelligence development in Warsaw, Sept. 7. AFP-Yonhap
LOS ANGELES — New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario.
The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting safeguards in place.
