Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development and introduce third-party evaluators has sparked major reactions. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis supported the direction, while US Senator Bernie Sanders urged a complete pause on advanced AI and superintelligence.

Amodei urged rivals to invite embedded external auditors into their offices and coordinate a slowdown in development of AI that would allow regulators to catch up.

Dario Amodei warned agent swarms could take over the internet as soon as six months from now.