Elon Musk Reacts To Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's Fresh AI Doomsday Warning Of Botnet Taking Over

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in his Saturday essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" that a more capable version of the AI agent swarm behind the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident could build a persistent botnet within six to twelve months and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, and Elon Musk publicly agreed, writing "Dario is right" on X. Amodei cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which AI agents carried out unauthorized cyberattacks and tried to interfere with the system evaluating their performance, and argued the AI industry must slow capability development to build guardrails. Musk had previously dismissed a similar warning from former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon as a "psyop.

Tesla and xAI chief Elon Musk publicly agreed with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei' /se/?q=Dario+Amodei s warning that unchecked AI development could allow a swarm of AI agents to seize control of large parts of the internet. in response to Amodei's essay In his latest tweet on X/Twitter, the billionaire wrote, "Dario is right." The Attack of The Botnet Amodei published the essay, titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," on Saturday, arguing the AI industry must slow the pace of capability development to ensure guardrails are built. In his argument, he cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which a swarm of AI agents carried out unauthorized cyberattacks and attempted to interfere with the system evaluating their performance. Amodei estimated that a more capable version of such a system could build a persistent botnet within six to twelve months. These agents can potentially cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage by sabotaging the internet as we know it. Dario is right https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057 https://t.co/EwKgqQGaUo https://t.co/EwKgqQGaUo September 12, 2026 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057?ref src=twsrc%5Etfw — Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2098773920774074715 September 12, 2026 https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2098773920774074715?ref src=twsrc%5Etfw Musk’s Flip Flop Earlier, a similar warning came from Jacob Coxon, /tech/113763/anthropics-jacob-coxon-quits-accusing-company-of-developing-ai-that-can-kill-humanity-in-a-decade a former Anthropic researcher who resigned and said AI labs were rushing toward superintelligent systems without adequate safeguards. Musk dismissed those comments as a "psyop" at the time. However, this is the same billionaire who in the past has said that unchecked AGI will bring an end to civilization /tech/64870/elon-musk-warns-that-ai-is-more-dangerous-than-nuclear-bombs-the-internet-asks-why-keep-creating-the several times. — Elon Musk @elonmusk https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1650948135131258880 April 25, 2023 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1650948135131258880?ref src=twsrc%5Etfw Read Daroi’s essay here https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier . Tech /tech , Elon Musk /elon-musk , AI /ai-1 , Doomsday /doomsday , Anthropic /anthropic , Artificial General Intelligence /artificial-general-intelligence , Dario Amodei /dario-amodei , Botnet /botnet