News Summary

• The CEO of Anthropic said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work.
• He warned that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year.
• Anthropic disclosed last week that it blocked efforts by bad actors to use its AI models for malicious activity.
• The company said it put stronger safeguards in its latest models to restrict biological research that could be used to make weapons but noted that “as models become increasingly capable, their risks will increase, unless AI developers and society’s defenders act to make them safer”