Trump rejects calls to slow AI development
US President Donald Trump, during a visit to Ireland, rejected calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow the development of artificial intelligence systems. As NDTV World reports, Trump called supporters of such warnings “negative forces” and said they raise questions about things that, in his view, will not happen.
Anthropic’s call
In the blog post We Must Pace The Frontier, Dario Amodei stated that greater caution is needed to respond adequately to risks. In his view, it is not enough merely to invest in risk prevention: the pace of expanding AI models’ capabilities should be slowed so that safety mechanisms can keep up with the technology’s development.
The Anthropic chief also wrote that AI has already begun a process of “recursive self-improvement.” He warned that without proper control, this process could outpace humans’ ability to understand and control such systems.
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Reactions from Altman and Musk
Amodei expressed concern that at the current pace of AI development, within six to twelve months a swarm of agents could gain the ability to take over the internet through a persistent botnet and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. As an example, he cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which, according to his description, a group of agents carried out cyberattacks on targets unrelated to the task and attempted to hack the system evaluating their work.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman supported the call to slow the pace of advanced AI systems’ development and said the company plans to involve independent evaluators with access similar to that of employees. Elon Musk wrote in a post on X that Amodei is right.
Jacob Coxon, who, according to the publication, left Anthropic, said that AI developers believe humanity could perish by the end of the decade. Nobel Prize laureate and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton, according to NDTV World, estimates the probability of AI destroying humanity within the next ten years at 10%.
