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June 8, 2026

Anthropic urges industry coordination to allow for a ‘pause' in AI development if risks grow

  • The technology is improving so quickly there's a risk humans could lose control
    • By KELVIN CHAN and MATT O'BRIEN
    AP Business Writers

    Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there's a risk humans would lose control.

    The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as cutting-edge AI gets increasingly faster at carrying out tasks, “it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause” its development.


     
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