Anthropic CEO says it's time to slow the pace of improving AI models, citing serious risks
bloomberg · reddit · 2026-09-12
Anthropic's CEO has called for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements, arguing that "serious" risks accompany the technology's benefits. A frontier-lab leader publicly advocating deceleration is notable against the backdrop of a heated race among frontier labs.
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