{"slug": "seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks", "title": "Seoul must weigh in on AI risks", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the pace of development, warning that \"recursive self-improvement\" is now beginning to happen across the industry, including at his own company. Amodei said that if slowing down bought \"even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability\" and that time were used to advance alignment, the risk of something going seriously wrong could be greatly reduced. The warnings come as South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has pushed to elevate Korea into one of the world's top three AI powers, a goal the article says may signal the need for shared AI safety rules.", "body_md": "Warning voices from within the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) industry, from researchers to leading AI executives, have raised the alarm about safety challenges in the AI era. For Korea, where President Lee Jae Myung has repeatedly pushed for elevating the country into one of the world's top three AI powers as an administrative goal, such warnings may signal the urgent need for shared safety rules for AI. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who has been a prominent voice warning about AI safety risks, called on companies to slow the pace with which they develop the technology. He has repeatedly expressed concern over the dramatic advancement of AI and its growing capability for what he called \"recursive self-improvement,\" which is now beginning to happen across the industry, including at his own company. “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. The support from Elon", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks", "canonical_source": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/editorial/20260915/ed-seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks?utm_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-09-15 04:57:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 05:00:21.767812+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "Lee Jae Myung", "Elon Musk", "South Korea"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/seoul-must-weigh-in-on-ai-risks.jsonld"}}