Anthropic Urges AI Labs to Pause Advanced Development

Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to consider slowing or temporarily pausing advanced AI development, warning that models may soon move toward "recursive self-improvement," where systems improve without human help. The company said this has not happened yet and may never happen, but could arrive sooner than governments and institutions are ready for. Anthropic is calling for a global agreement and a verification system to ensure any slowdown is respected. The warning has drawn criticism from skeptics who say it could help slow rivals, but Anthropic says society and AI safety research need more time. Source: The Wall Street Journal