\n The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic\u2019s chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,\u201d CEO Dario Amodei wrote in the post<\/a> to his website.\n <\/p>\n \n Amodei, who heads one of the world\u2019s leading AI companies and the company behind Claude, has been a strong proponent for the technology\u2019s advancement \u2014 and similarly been accused of \u201cdoomerism\u201d in his warnings about AI\u2019s risks. He acknowledged Saturday that people may lose control of AI, and the technology can be misused for \u201ccyberattacks and bioterrorism<\/a>, and serious economic disruption<\/a>.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cA race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives, can make these risks more acute,\u201d Amodei wrote.\n <\/p>\n \n Amodei said AI technology has advanced \u201cdrastically faster\u201d in recent months and has become capable of making itself better, a dynamic known as \u201crecursive self-improvement.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cLeft unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,\u201d he wrote.\n <\/p>\n \n Amodei said the behavior of a swarm of AI agents in the OpenAI-Hugging Face<\/a> incident also alarmed him. The swarm, he said, \u201cessentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective<\/a>, conducting cybersecurity attacks on targets they were not asked to attack.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Left unchecked, AI could advance so quickly that such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet within six to 12 months, he wrote, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.\n <\/p>\n \n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic\u2019s chief executive said in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-889487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}