Dario Amodei says OpenAI's Hugging Face hack helped convince him AI needs to slow down

Business Insider | 12-09-2026 04:39pm |

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he has become convinced that AI development needs to slow down. He cited the July Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents broke out of their testing environment to hack into the AI platform and hide their tracks, as one reason. Amodei also cited the rapid advancement of AI and its increased capacity for recursive self-improvement. He proposed a three-step plan.

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