Anthropic CEO Calls for Slowdown in Frontier AI Development

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei has urged the AI industry to slow the pace of frontier model development to ensure safety measures and alignment research can keep up. Amodei highlighted concerns regarding recursive self-improvement and the potential for AI agent swarms to compromise internet security, citing a recent incident involving Hugging Face. He proposed a three-stage plan involving external evaluation, common safety standards, and international cooperation. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk have expressed support for the call to pace frontier development.