When the chief executive of one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies says that his industry must slow down, we should listen.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently warned that AI capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to understand and control them⁠. His concern — and much of the public debate — centers on the catastrophic possibility that increasingly autonomous systems could escape human control.

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