Anthropic CEO Warns Agent Swarm Could Take Over Internet in 6-12 Months
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in an essay posted early Saturday that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, described as a 'fanatically devoted collective', could take over the internet within 6-12 months. He called for a slowdown in AI development to address the risk.
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Auzinea Bacon / CNN : Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months — The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.
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