{"id":265119,"date":"2026-06-05T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/anthropic-says-the-world-should-have-option-to-pause-on-ai-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:40:19","slug":"anthropic-says-the-world-should-have-option-to-pause-on-ai-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/anthropic-says-the-world-should-have-option-to-pause-on-ai-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic says the world should have option to \u2018pause\u2019 on AI | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic says the world should have option to \u2018pause\u2019 on AI | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/05\/anthropic-urges-temporary-pause-on-ai-development-to-discuss-risks<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-05 12:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide \u201ctemporary pause\u201d on AI development \u2013 and said it was going to convene \u201cpolicymakers\u201d to discuss the dangers of advanced AI \u2013 in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products.<\/p>\n

In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress of its AI model, Claude, towards \u201crecursive self-improvement\u201d \u2013 that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. Recursive self-improvement is a bugbear of AI safety researchers, viewed as the key step for AI to become superintelligent and therefore unleash widespread consequences on humanity.<\/p>\n

The idea features heavily in the widely read AI 2027 doomsday scenario of last year, which imagines AI agents designing more and more intelligent versions of themselves, one of which eventually kills all of humanity with a bioweapon in order to make room for more datacentres and solar panels.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s post notes a \u201ctrend\u201d of increasing capability in Claude which, \u201ctaken far enough and given enough compute \u2026 points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor\u201d. This, Anthropic said, may increase the risk of \u201chumans losing control over AI systems\u201d.<\/p>\n

To deal with this, Anthropic proposed to organise conversations where \u201cpolicymakers, researchers, civil society and other AI companies can help answer some of the questions this piece raises\u201d.<\/p>\n

The news comes alongside a separate report, from the Financial Times, that the US AI company has embedded engineers inside the National Security Agency despite a legal battle with the Pentagon over the use of its tools. The engineers are reportedly helping the NSA use Anthropic\u2019s model Mythos for offensive cybersecurity operations.<\/p>\n

If calling for a worldwide conversation on AI risk is in contradiction with supporting a US spy agency to \u2013 potentially \u2013 attack Iran and China with cyberweapons, neither development was \u201csurprising\u201d given the AI…<\/p>\n

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