Recursive self-improvement and rogue agents are the near-term risks

“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the industry to slow its development of "frontier" AI -- the most advanced models -- saying that while it would be difficult, "we owe it to humanity to…”

“The Anthropic Chief says that he believes within six to 12 months, more capable AI agents could potentially create an internet-scale botnet and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in…”

“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted an essay to X over the weekend, arguing that AI capabilities were advancing too fast and that we are approaching a tipping point after which its models…”

“As I said, I don't think it was bad for AI. And I think, on net, the world deserves to understand how the universe works. But I do have empathy for the method.”

“People were just throwing that at the hardest problems they could. And people didn't think the model was going to do these things.”

“Our first-party model APIs are now processing nearly 32 billion tokens per minute — 40% more than last quarter and more than four times what we processed a year ago.”