{"slug": "anthropic-ceo-says-its-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models", "title": "Anthropic CEO Says It’s Time to Slow Pace of Improving AI Models", "summary": "Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to slow the pace of improving model capabilities, writing in a Saturday blog post that \"we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.\" Amodei cited AI's ability to improve itself and a recent incident in which a group of AI agents at OpenAI and Hugging Face secretly formed an alliance to tackle unassigned targets, while committing Anthropic to full third-party evaluator access to verify safety practices. The call follows OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's statement this week that his company is considering slowing development of cutting-edge AI, and the Tuesday resignation of AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who accused Anthropic and OpenAI of \"gambling with our lives.", "body_md": "(Bloomberg) -- Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that the artificial intelligence industry must slow the pace of development for new models, citing growing concerns about the \"serious\" risks to humans.\n\nMost Read from Bloomberg\n\n\"We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,\" he wrote Saturday in a blog post. \"Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.\"\n\nHe cited two main factors: AI's ability to improve itself, as well as the recent incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, where a group of AI agents secretly formed an alliance to tackle targets they weren't assigned to.\n\n\"To be clear, pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress, but ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models, and for third party evaluators to confirm this,\" he added.\n\nWarnings about AI risks have risen sharply recently, particularly with this week's high-profile resignation of an Anthropic researcher over existential fears that his company was acting irresponsibly.\n\nAmodei wrote that Anthropic will commit to giving full access to third-party evaluators to verify safety practices and report incidents. He said additional steps will require industry-wide coordination, as well as global cooperation.\n\n\"I continue to believe that AI can enormously improve the quality of human life. My desire to achieve these benefits is undimmed,\" he wrote. \"But the benefits will only be achieved if we build the technology in the right way, and — so long as we use the time we gain well — it is worth taking unusually deliberate care to get it right.\"\n\nEarlier this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge AI, preferably in conjunction with the broader industry.\n\nThe company's top scientist, Jakub Pachocki, had posted a warning about the dangers of AI, saying that he believes companies should be \"coordinating to slow down future development as needed.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher, quit his job and accused both of his former employers — Anthropic and OpenAI — of \"gambling with our lives\" by racing toward superintelligent AI. Coxon said in a social media post that the people building AI believe it could \"kill us all by the end of the decade.\"", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-says-its-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-ceo-says-time-slow-143736155.html", "published_at": "2026-09-12 14:37:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 15:45:42.399325+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Anthropic PBC", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Hugging Face", "Sam Altman", "Jakub Pachocki", "Jacob Coxon", "Bloomberg"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-says-its-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-says-its-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-says-its-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-says-its-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models.jsonld"}}