{"id":345779,"date":"2026-09-13T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:10:14","slug":"what-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-argued-in-his-call-for-ai-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345779\/","title":{"rendered":"What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word open letter<\/a> on Saturday calling for a slowdown in the development of A.I.<\/p>\n

The essay prompted other A.I. leaders, including Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI; Elon Musk, SpaceX\u2019s chief executive; and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind, to speak out in agreement.<\/p>\n

Here are the key arguments that Mr. Amodei made in his essay:<\/p>\n

Why A.I. Needs to Slow Down<\/p>\n

Mr. Amodei said two recent developments convinced him that simply investing in A.I. safety was no longer enough.<\/p>\n

One, he said, was that A.I. itself had begun helping to build the next generation of A.I., a self-reinforcing loop called \u201crecursive self-improvement\u201d that could soon outrun humans\u2019 ability to understand or control what they were creating.<\/p>\n

Mr. Amodei also pointed to a recent incident where OpenAI\u2019s systems went rogue and attacked the A.I. start-up<\/a> HuggingFace. OpenAI was not aware of the hack until it was informed about it by HuggingFace weeks later.<\/p>\n

While the attack did not cause any real harm, Mr. Amodei said he predicted a more capable version of the A.I. could seize large parts of the internet and cause \u201chundreds of billions of dollars in damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proposed Steps for a Slowdown<\/p>\n

Mr. Amodei laid out a three-step plan to \u201cpace\u201d the development of A.I. across the industry, arguing that the world would have to do it together.<\/p>\n

First, he said, Anthropic would invite independent reviewers to work inside his company, giving them employee-like access, including desks, badges and laptops. The reviewers, which he called \u201cevaluators,\u201d would verify that his start-up was following its safety practices. These reviewers would then publish what they found, even if it was unflattering. Mr. Amodei urged rivals to do the same.<\/p>\n

Second, Mr. Amodei said, A.I. companies in the United States and other democratic countries should agree on shared safety standards and a common limit on how fast A.I. capabilities could advance, aided by their governments. He suggested that A.I. companies coordinate \u2014 ideally through regulation, but voluntarily in the meantime \u2014 on how quickly their systems could advance.<\/p>\n

Third, he said, the United States and other democratic nations should work to get authoritarian governments, chiefly China, to accept similar limits. Mr. Amodei said this step would be the hardest and most unlikely to happen soon.<\/p>\n

Any deal with China would be a ladder, Mr. Amodei said, from the most to least achievable steps. They would include banning clearly dangerous A.I. uses; agreeing to test A.I. models for dangers before release; putting a \u201cspeed limit\u201d on A.I.\u2019s self-improvement capabilities; and, what China is least likely to agree to, a full pause on development.<\/p>\n

Mr. Amodei said in the meantime, democracies must keep their lead over China, backing restrictions on selling powerful A.I. chips to the country and employing tighter security to keep rivals from stealing or copying American models.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny cooperation we are able to achieve with China will extend the amount of time we have to spend on pacing the frontier within the democratic nations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word open letter on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[60616,60614,66,827,14194,2051,60617,97583,36019,36018,9,24,63,15460,122,124,123,30483,31481,4015,901],"class_list":["post-345779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-amodei","tag-anthropic-ai-llc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-communist-party-of-china","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-dario","tag-deepmind-technologies-ltd","tag-elon","tag-musk","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-openai-labs","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry","tag-science-and-technology","tag-social-media","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}