OpenAI and Anthropic researchers are urging a slowdown in advanced AI development over catastrophic-risk concerns. They cite recursive self-improvement and insufficient safeguards.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on artificial intelligence companies to slow the rate at which they advance model capabilities amid mounting fears of misuse of artificial intelligence, outlining a three-step framework intended to pace development and create more time to manage its risks.
A massive wave of panic has hit the artificial intelligence industry after top researchers at Anthropic broke silence, warning that superintelligent systems could trigger human extinction within the decade. While founders and safety researchers point to bioweapons, systemic infrastructure collapse, and runaway autonomous logic, Elon Musk has hit back, calling the doomsday panic an engineered psyop. In this special story we unpack how an AI wipeout could actually happen, who stands to gain from the panic, and whether global summits must step in before humanity loses control of the machines.
A demonstrator holds a sign calling for regulation of artificial intelligence during a Sept. 2 protest outside the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit in Chapel Hill, N.C.
A demonstrator holds a sign calling for regulation of artificial intelligence during a Sept. 2 protest outside the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit in Chapel Hill, N.C.
