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'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic confirms
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The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO.
Key facts
- The Claude 3 Opus model released in March 2024 could reliably complete tasks that take humans four minutes to complete
- As of May, Claude authored more than 80 percent of the code merged into Anthropic's codebase, up from the low single digits before Claude Code launched in research preview in February 2025
- Last week, the company announced that it reached a $965 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world
- The length of human tasks that models can reliably complete on their own had been doubling every seven months as measured in March 2025
Summary
It would be “good for the world” to slow down the pace of AI development, according to a blog post from Anthropic, which this week began the process of going public with a confidential IPO filing. “We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” stated a blog post written by Anthropic co-founder (and former Reg scribe) Jack Clark and researcher Marina Favaro. Executing an actual pause would take a negotiation and monitoring effort on par with nuclear accords, including the agreement from all of the frontier AI labs, as well as support from policy makers around the world.