GoKawiilThe head of leading AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored.
In an essay on Saturday, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks associated with it were "serious" and companies and governments must be given time to address them.
He proposed a three-point plan that includes independent monitoring of AI models as they are developed, industry-wide regulation and global regulation.
There have been growing concerns recently about the technology's potential risks, the most serious of which suggested there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade.
Anthropic previously said it had identified and disrupted attempts to use its AI model for "malicious activity" which could support the development of biological weapons.
But the starkest warning came from two employees from Anthropic's safety team who have resigned in the last two weeks saying humanity may not survive, external the race among AI companies to develop machines that are smarter than humans.
And in a new interview with Fortune Magazine, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said safety standards were "not at a place" to push AI capabilities much further.
Altman added he believed AI beyond human control is "absolutely" possible.
The warnings have prompted calls to action, but US President Donald Trump has so far rejected such fears, saying on Thursday he was concerned "if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in a very bad position".
Reaction to Amodei's post has poured in from across the tech world, with Elon Musk saying the Anthropic boss was "right".
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