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Anthropic Calls for Global AI Slowdown after $965B Valuation

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Anthropic said artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly that an industry-wide pause is needed to slow the pace of development while companies get a handle on potential societal risks.

The AI juggernaut published a blog post Thursday warning that AI systems could soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention, resulting in chaos.

Critics and rivals have cast similar statements in the past from Anthropic — which dethroned OpenAI as the most valuable AI company last month – as part of a bid to hobble the competition in the red-hot race to develop advanced artificial intelligence.

Anthropic has long warned that the power of its models could pose risks to humanity. Anthropic’s Chief Executive Dario Amodei feuded for months with the White House over AI safety related to the use of its systems in military applications.

Anthropic called on top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development and offered internal data that showed the speedy improvement of its own models. (Read more from “Anthropic Calls for Global AI Slowdown after $965B Valuation” HERE)

REPORT: AI Giant Resisted CCP Infiltration As US Extends Tech Lead Over China

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AI giant Anthropic rebuffed an attempt from a Chinese think tank to gain access to its newest AI model, Claude Mythos, during a private meeting in Singapore, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Anthropic unveiled Mythos in April, but has limited its release to around 40 American companies, which include Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, over concerns that it is so powerful it could threaten national security systems and potentially disable companies that use it. During the April meeting organized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a representative from a Chinese think tank asked Anthropic officials to loosen their stance and give Beijing access to the AI model, The New York Times reported.

The request was not an official ask from the Chinese government, The Times reported, but Trump administration officials at the National Security Council were nevertheless alarmed. Some officials saw it as a daunting sign that Beijing will try to infiltrate American companies by any means possible to gain access to new and powerful AI models, according to the report.

China is meanwhile scrambling to build out an AI model as powerful as Claude that is focused on cyber defense and can compete with American products, according to a report from the South China Morning Post.

“Our assessment is that China’s own Mythos will definitely emerge, though currently the overall capabilities of its cybersecurity models are far from those of Mythos,” Austin Zhao, senior research manager at International Data Corporation (IDC) China, told the outlet. “But the overall trend is inevitable because the capabilities of China’s models are also rapidly increasing.” (Read more from “REPORT: AI Giant Resisted CCP Infiltration As US Extends Tech Lead Over China” HERE)