"So these AIs are getting smarter, very, very quickly. And in particular, in the next six months to a year, I expect the capabilities of our AI systems to be quite scary."

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a new essay on Saturday that he's 'become convinced' in recent months that AI development needs to slow down.

Coxon, who recently resigned from Anthropic, has backed calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow the development of increasingly advanced AI systems. In multiple interviews with US news media, Coxon argued that AI labs need stronger safeguards and should consider mechanisms that could allow systems to be shut down if they become uncontrollable.

Amodei's essay landed after an Anthropic researcher set off a firestorm on social media this week by announcing he quit his job at the company.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei back slower AI development, raising concerns over AI stocks, Nvidia, AMD, Micron and future AI spending.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two biggest rivals: OpenAI Group PBC CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compared the AI race with China to Cold War nuclear tensions, urging arms limitation-style talks to slow growing technology.

Tech bosses Elon Musk and Sam Altman have backed a call from the head of Anthropic to have permanent third-party reviewers inside "frontier" AI companies.