It sounds like science fiction — or the stuff of nightmares — as some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence warn that the technology their own companies are developing could go seriously wrong without an urgent slowdown.

Over the weekend, Anthropic boss Dario Amodei published an online essay calling for a coordinated reduction in the pace of AI development in order to give companies and governments more time to establish better guardrails.

While those concerns have existed for years, Amodei said events in recent months — including the Hugging Face AI hacking incident — had convinced him that action was needed.

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