AI industry needs to slow down for safety: Anthropic CEO
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in AI development to allow safety measures to catch up with rapid technological advancements. He warns that without proper oversight, AI models could reach dangerous capabilities within a year, potentially posing significant risks to global internet security.
Why it matters
This highlights a growing internal conflict within the AI industry between rapid commercial development and the existential risks posed by advanced autonomous systems.
The CEO of Anthropic said on Saturday (September 12, 2026) the the artificial intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet, among other risks.
Mr. Amodei also offered a plan in a post on his website to increase checks on the industry, one part of which he said Anthropic is undertaking by itself already, The others would require coordination among the broad industry and with governments around the world, including authoritarian ones.
“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,” Mr. Amodei said.
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