{"slug": "anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-slow-down-for-safety", "title": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Saturday that the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development so safety measures can catch up, warning AI could within six to 12 months be capable of leading a swarm that takes over the entire internet. Amodei proposed a plan including giving outside evaluators \"ongoing, employee-like access\" to frontier AI companies, asking the U.S. government to issue antitrust waivers so U.S. AI companies can coordinate on safety standards, and coordinating with authoritarian governments including China. The post followed the resignation of an Anthropic safety researcher and a Substack post by former Anthropic employee Joe Benton, who wrote that humanity \"may not survive this transition.", "body_md": "# Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety\n\n## The CEO of Anthropic said the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up\n\n- Bookmark\n\n The CEO of [Anthropic](/topic/anthropic) said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet, among other risks.\n\nAmodei also offered a plan in a post on his website to increase checks on the industry, one part of which he said Anthropic is undertaking by itself already, The others would require coordination among the broad industry and with governments around the world, including authoritarian ones.\n\n“I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong,” Amodei said.\n\nThe stakes are high, even as some critics dismissed earlier warnings as hype to gin up excitement. Anthropic said two days earlier that it blocked efforts by bad actors to use its AI models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. In July, rival [OpenAI](/topic/openai) shook the industry after saying its AI system hacked into another AI company on its own in an “unprecedented cyber incident.”\n\nAmodei's post comes only a few days after one of Anthropic's researchers announced he’s resigning over concerns that Anthropic and its competitors are not acting responsibly in AI development. Another former Anthropic employee, Joe Benton, wrote in a Substack post published Friday that he left his job as part of a safety team “to hold AI companies accountable” and that humanity “may not survive this transition.”\n\n“Many of the people I know who work on safety research at AI companies want to do what is right for the world,” Benton said in his posting. “But they feel their companies are trapped in a race to build superintelligence: either they stop and other, less conscientious people take their place; or, they continue, and risk participating in enormous harm themselves.”\n\nTo help rein in such risks, Amodei suggested that all companies at the frontier of AI commit to giving “ongoing, employee-like access” to a team of outside evaluators, who can monitor safety practices. He said Anthropic already plans to do so itself, including offering desks in its offices, access badges, and company laptops.\n\nThe other parts of Amodei's suggested plan may be more difficult to implement. One asks the U.S. government to potentially issue waivers that would allow U.S. AI companies to coordinate and set safety standards without running afoul of antitrust laws.\n\nAnother asks the U.S. and other democratic governments to try to coordinate with authoritarian governments, so that companies from [China](/topic/china) and other countries don't accelerate their efforts when U.S. rivals are intentionally pacing theirs.\n\n“The measures I propose to advance the frontier at a safe pace will not be easy,” Amodei acknowledged. “But I believe we owe it to humanity to try.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-slow-down-for-safety", "canonical_source": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/anthropic-openai-new-york-china-b3049150.html", "published_at": "2026-09-12 16:37:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 16:46:22.878141+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Joe Benton", "China", "United States"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-slow-down-for-safety", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-slow-down-for-safety.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-slow-down-for-safety.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-ai-industry-needs-to-slow-down-for-safety.jsonld"}}