{"id":62978,"date":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/62978\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","slug":"anthropic-calls-for-global-ai-slowdown-says-systems-may-outpace-human-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/62978\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic calls for global AI slowdown, says systems may outpace human control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence<\/a> company Anthropic<\/a> suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based company, which makes the Claude family of AI models, said in a report that a worldwide slowdown in cutting-edge AI development would “likely be a good thing” — but warned that if only one company stopped, rivals would simply race ahead.<\/p>\n

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research<\/a> to keep up with the advance of the technology,” it said.<\/p>\n

Getting a real pause to work would mean multiple major AI companies in multiple countries — most notably the US<\/a> and China<\/a> — all agreeing to stop at the same time, under rules everyone could actually verify, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n

“Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures,” it said.<\/p>\n

The company has faced pushback from others in the industry — and officials in the White House<\/a> — who say its focus on worst-case scenarios overstates the risks and amounts to a strategy for slowing rivals under the cover of safety concerns.<\/p>\n

Still, the White House has acknowledged the power of the company’s Mythos model — which has not been made available to the general public due to its cybersecurity capabilities and is currently deployed only to a small number of vetted organizations.<\/p>\n

The proposal would face an uphill battle in Washington and Silicon Valley, where US officials and tech executives have repeatedly argued that any slowdown in AI development risks handing China a decisive strategic edge in what many see as the defining technology race of the century.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump<\/a>, however, said he discussed the possibility of cooperating with China on AI safety issues during his recent visit to Beijing.<\/p>\n

Trump also signed an executive order this week that allows the government 30 days to conduct a preliminary review of the most powerful US AI models before their release.<\/p>\n

‘Human role narrowing’<\/p>\n

Anthropic compared the problem to nuclear arms control treaties — but said it would be even harder to get a handle on, since AI training is far easier to hide than a missile silo, and the temptation to quietly keep going would be enormous.<\/p>\n

The company said it plans to bring together government officials, scientists, advocacy groups and competing AI firms in coming months to figure out how such a system could work.<\/p>\n

The call for coordination comes alongside internal data showing that AI is already dramatically speeding up the development of AI itself, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n

That acceleration creates a feedback loop that Anthropic warned could eventually lead to what researchers call “recursive self-improvement.”<\/p>\n

That’s the idea of an AI system that becomes capable of essentially teaching itself to get smarter, without much human help.<\/p>\n

“We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable,” the report said, while adding that it could arrive sooner than most governments and institutions are ready for.<\/p>\n

“The evidence suggests that the human role is narrowing at each step in the AI development process,” the company said.<\/p>\n

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