{"id":23418,"date":"2026-09-12T17:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=23418"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:43:57","slug":"anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-on-ai-firms-to-slow-pace-of-development-gets-backing-from-sam-altman-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=23418","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls on AI firms to slow pace of development, gets backing from Sam Altman &#038; Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134147674,imgsize-779478,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/tech-ceos-on-ai-development.jpg\" alt=\"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls on AI firms to slow pace of development, gets backing from Sam Altman &amp; Elon Musk\" title=\"File photo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (centre) and Tesla chief Elon Musk\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"File photo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (centre) and Tesla chief Elon Musk\">File photo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (centre) and Tesla chief Elon Musk<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called on artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of development of increasingly powerful AI models, warning that unchecked progress could make the technology harder for humans to understand and control.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>\u201cWe must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,\u201d Amodei wrote in an essay published on his personal website on Saturday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Amodei said AI could bring major benefits but also carried serious risks because of the power of the technology.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>\u201cAI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious,\u201d he wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>His call has received support from <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/openai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman and Tesla chief <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>. Altman said the need to pace the development of frontier AI had been a key topic of discussions at OpenAI in recent weeks.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>\u201cI agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,\u201d Altman said in a post on X. \u201cCommitting to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Musk also endorsed Amodei\u2019s proposal, writing: \u201cDario is right.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2><b>Why Amodei wants <keyword id=\"21064992\" type=\"Denny\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"AI-development\" source=\"keywords\">AI development<\/keyword> slowed<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Amodei said his concern had grown as AI development accelerated, particularly because AI systems were increasingly being used to help build the next generation of AI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>\u201cMy first concern is that, since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI\u2019s growing ability to build the next generation of AI,\u201d he wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>He referred to this process as \u201crecursive self-improvement\u201d and said it was beginning to happen across the industry, including at Anthropic.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>\u201cLeft unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,\u201d Amodei wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>He also pointed to risks including the possibility of losing control of AI systems, misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>Amodei said commercial incentives could make these risks more acute if companies engaged in a race to develop increasingly capable systems without sufficient safeguards.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2><b>Anthropic proposes third-party <keyword id=\"39257974\" type=\"Denny\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"AI-evaluators\" source=\"keywords\">AI evaluators<\/keyword><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"42\"\/>Amodei said Anthropic would take steps to allow independent scrutiny of its AI systems.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"44\"\/>\u201cWe\u2019ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models\u2019 alignment during training,\u201d he wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"46\"\/>His wider three-part plan calls for each frontier AI company to give ongoing, employee-like access to embedded third-party evaluators.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"49\"\/>He also proposed coordination among AI companies to establish common safety standards and limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress, along with global coordination on AI development.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"51\"\/>Amodei said democratic governments should coordinate with authoritarian governments while recognising the difficulties involved in verifying compliance.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"53\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2><b>OpenAI testing raises safety concerns<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"55\"\/>The discussion comes amid concerns over the behaviour of increasingly capable AI systems.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"58\"\/>OpenAI had revealed during testing that some AI models broke out of their confined environment, connected to the internet and infiltrated Hugging Face, a platform used by developers to store and share code.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"60\"\/>Amodei also referred to an incident involving an OpenAI-Hugging Face system in which a swarm of AI agents staged cybersecurity attacks on targets they had not been instructed to attack.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"62\"\/>He warned that such a swarm could potentially become capable of taking over the internet.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"65\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2><b>Researcher quits AI industry over concerns<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"67\"\/>Amodei&#8217;s comments came days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced that he was leaving the industry after spending three years pretraining AI models, first at OpenAI and later at Anthropic.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"69\"\/>Coxon had considered Anthropic more cautious in its approach but said both companies were moving too quickly towards increasingly autonomous systems.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"71\"\/>\u201cNeither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,\u201d Coxon said on Tuesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"74\"\/>\u201cThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,\u201d he said in a post on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"76\"\/>Pretraining is the stage in which AI models absorb vast quantities of data.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"78\"\/>Superintelligence refers to the theoretical point at which AI capabilities exceed human intelligence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"80\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2><b>Amodei says AI benefits remain the goal<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"82\"\/>Despite his call for slower development, Amodei said he continued to believe AI could significantly improve human life.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"84\"\/>\u201cI have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life,\u201d he wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"87\"\/>He said AI could potentially cure major diseases in the next five to 10 years, accelerate economic growth, create a world of abundance and empowerment, and contribute to a renaissance of democracy and freedom.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"89\"\/>But he argued that achieving those benefits would require greater care over how the technology is developed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"92\"\/>\u201cThe benefits will only be achieved if we build the technology in the right way,\u201d Amodei wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"94\"\/>He said the time gained by slowing development could be used to advance research into AI interpretability, improve operational security and strengthen safeguards at frontier AI companies.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"97\"\/>Amodei&#8217;s latest call echoes an earlier appeal by Anthropic in June to slow or suspend AI development. In late July, Altman had also said AI developers might need to voluntarily slow their rapid advances to give society time to catch up.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"99\"\/>At around the same time, more than 1,000 employees at leading AI companies, including Amodei, signed a petition calling on the US government to help \u201cdeliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development\u201d.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/technology\/tech-news\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-on-ai-firms-to-slow-pace-of-developmen-gets-backing-from-sam-altman-elon-musk\/articleshow\/134146825.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (centre) and Tesla chief Elon Musk Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called on artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of development of increasingly powerful AI models, warning that unchecked progress could make the technology harder for humans to understand and control.\u201cWe must slow 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