Anthropic backs urgent call for the most powerful AI labs to hit the brakes
The New Stack 2 months ago 44 ● 75 sources
More than 1,100 AI researchers and executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, signed an open letter calling for governments to enable deliberate slowing of frontier AI development if safety measures fall behind capability advances. Anthropic's June research showed that over 80% of code merged into its codebase is now written by Claude, raising concerns about recursive self-improvement and systems designing their own successors faster than researchers can evaluate them. The petition has prompted congressional interest, including the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, while major labs are already implementing tougher testing, longer validation cycles, and stronger runtime monitoring rather than pausing development entirely.