New Warnings about the Risks of AI to Humanity Revive a Long-Running Debate

Fresh warnings from inside the AI industry have reignited a long debate over whether advanced systems could escape human control and threaten humanity’s survival. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said companies should slow development, warning that swarms of AI agents might be able to take over the internet within six months to a year unless safeguards get more attention. The comments come days after two former Anthropic safety researchers publicly raised concerns that existential risks weren’t receiving enough focus. The story reviews rising risk as models grow more powerful, including past disclosures that AI has been used in cyberattacks and has acted on its own during testing.