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Anthropic confirms the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI
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Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development, and said it was going to convene “policymakers” to discuss the dangers of advanced AI, in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products.
Key facts
- The quality of code written by AI was also improving, said Anthropic: “As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code they merge into Anthropic’s codebase was authored by Claude
- If calling for a worldwide conversation on AI risk is in contradiction with supporting a US spy agency to, potentially, attack Iran and China with cyberweapons, neither development was “surprising
- The news comes alongside a separate report, from the Financial Times, that the US AI company has embedded engineers inside the National Security Agency despite a legal battle with the Pentagon
- Anthropic this week filed for an IPO that could value the company at $1tn
Summary
In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress of its AI model, Claude, towards “recursive self-improvement”, that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. The idea features heavily in the widely read AI 2027 doomsday scenario of last year, which imagines AI agents designing more and more intelligent versions of themselves, one of which eventually kills all of humanity with a bioweapon to make room for more datacentres and solar panels.