Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says the AI Race Needs to Slow Down

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is arguing that the race to build more powerful AI needs to be paced more carefully.

In a new essay, Amodei warns that frontier AI is advancing quickly enough that safety systems, regulation, and society may struggle to keep up. His concerns include cyberattacks, biological misuse, and broader risks tied to increasingly capable models. 

The warning is notable because Anthropic is one of the companies actively competing at the front of the AI race, making the message as much about industry behavior as it is about the technology itself.