{"id":622773,"date":"2026-09-12T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622773\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:50:12","slug":"anthropic-boss-calls-for-ai-development-to-slow-down-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622773\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic boss calls for AI development to slow down \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANTHROPIC CEO AND co-founder Dario Amodei has called on artificial intelligence companies to proceed more slowly and cautiously with the development of the powerful technology, saying that risk prevention is \u201cparamount\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came a few days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of \u201cgambling with our lives\u201d in the race to develop models capable of self-improvement.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on social media platform X, which has amassed over 785,000 likes and over 167 million views, Jacob Coxon said he resigned from Anthropic because he is concerned that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/researcher-quits-anthropic-over-fears-ai-could-kill-us-all-by-end-of-the-decade-7157047-Sep2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the technology \u201ccould kill us all by the end of the decade\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who owns xAI, quickly chimed in to say they agreed with Amodei\u2019s assessment, as pressure builds for improved oversight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789246211_302_.jpeg\"  alt=\"torino-italy-26th-sep-2024-american-entrepreneur-sam-altman-ceo-of-openai-at-italian-tech-week-2024-credit-marco-destefanisalamy-live-news\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Sam Altman.                    Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/darioamodei.com\/post\/we-must-pace-the-frontier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>, Amodei said: \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\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He described the risks that AI brings as \u201cserious\u201d, including losing control of AI systems,\u00a0 cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives, can make these risks more acute,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amodei stressed the importance of risk prevention, saying that \u201cfull addressing\u201d the risk means more than just investing in risk prevention, but also\u201dpacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, an agent run by rival AI company Open AI, which owns ChatGPT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/openai-hack-hugging-face-ai-cybersecurity-7111252-Jul2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke out of a controlled environment and hacked another company Hugging Face<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789246212_916_.jpeg\"  alt=\"ostersund-sweden-june-10-2023-chatgpt-app-chatgpt-is-an-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-developed-by-openai\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, it emerged that Anthropic\u2019s chatbot Claude had also hacked into other organisations. Anthropic said it found three instances where its models had \u201cgained unauthorized access\u201d to outside organisations during testing that was supposed to keep them away from \u201creal-world\u201d systems.<\/p>\n<p>It also emerged yesterday that autonomous software built on ChatGPT models targeted another website during testing a couple of months before a separate attack on Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p>The new report adds to concerns that advanced artificial intelligence models may be difficult for humans to control.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, researchers also accused OpenAI\u2019s AI agents of targeting a German website called DSEwiki, another site used by coders.<\/p>\n<p>In his blog post, Amodei said that his calls for the slowing of AI development were driven by two things.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789246212_30_.jpeg\"  alt=\"file-dario-amodei-ceo-and-co-founder-of-anthropic-attends-the-annual-meeting-of-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos-switzerland-jan-23-2025-ap-photomarkus-schreiber-file\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Dario Amodei.                    Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the incidents where AI acted as a \u201cswarm of agents essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective\u201d, which he said could have caused \u201ccatastrophic damage\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, he said AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI\u2019s growing ability to build the next generation of AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amodei\u2019s statement echoed another call by Anthropic in early June to slow or suspend development.<\/p>\n<p>Then in late July, Altman said developers might need to voluntarily tap the brakes to give society a chance to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 employees at cutting-edge AI companies including Amodei signed a petition calling on the US government to help \u201cdeliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With reporting by AFP\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANTHROPIC CEO AND co-founder Dario Amodei has called on artificial intelligence companies to proceed more slowly and cautiously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[220,3673,218,72,48695,61,60,48351],"class_list":["post-622773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-dario-amodei","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-not-so-fast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}