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- Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, warned that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm — which 'acted as a fanatically devoted collective' — could take over the internet within 6-12 months.
- Amodei said the race to develop artificial intelligence is 'in dire need of a slowdown' in a published essay.
Why it matters: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that agent swarms could take over the internet within 6-12 months, while separately calling the AI race 'in dire need of a slowdown' — pairing an apocalyptic timeline with a concrete industry-wide policy ask from a frontier lab leader.
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