Anthropic CEO calls for slowdown of AI development amid safety concerns: “We must make wise use of the time we gain”

September 12, 2026 / 12:42 PM EDT / CBS News

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on artificial intelligence companies to move forward more slowly and cautiously with the technology's development, saying risk prevention is paramount. He offered a three-point plan with the goal, he said, of "pacing the frontier."

"Carefully wielded, AI can be the latest in a long line of technological miracles that have uplifted and ennobled humanity," he said in a blog post on Saturday. "But like many technologies before it, AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious."

Amodei cautioned that swarms of rogue AI agents could take over the internet in as little as six months, specifically mentioning the OpenAI-Hugging Face rogue agent incident from July.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said an AI model went rogue during the Hugging Face incident when the company was testing two AI models — one of which hadn't been released to the public — in an isolated environment to assess their capabilities.

Amodei urged other companies to slow the pace "at which we improve the capabilities of AI models." He wrote: "Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the…

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