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Anthropic CEO Amodei warns agent swarm could take over internet in 6-12 months, calls for AI slowdown
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Amodei warned that an agent swarm acting as a "fanatically devoted collective" could take over the internet in 6-12 months, calling for the AI industry to slow frontier development.
This warning from the CEO of a major AI lab frames agent swarms as a near-term systemic risk rather than a distant hypothetical. The backing from Altman and Musk signals unusual cross-industry alignment on the need to slow frontier development.
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Amodei warned that an agent swarm acting as a "fanatically devoted collective" could take over the internet in 6-12 months.
He proposed pacing the frontier through embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments.
Altman and Musk backed Amodei's call to slow down AI development amid mounting safety concerns.
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