Anthropic's latest comments highlight a growing question for the AI industry: can the race to build more powerful systems be slowed before safety concerns catch up?

One of the companies at the forefront of the AI revolution is calling for a pause in AI development to allow society time to grapple with its immense implications.

AI that can build itself would be a major development in the history of technology, but "full recursive self-improvement also might increase the risks of humans losing control…