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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

Anthropic AI Slowdown - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday 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.

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.

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