Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development

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Anthropic, the San Francisco AI startup behind Claude, proposed Thursday that the world's most powerful AI systems pause development, warning that the latest models show signs of potentially escaping human control. The company acknowledged the paradox at the heart of its plea: a unilateral slowdown would merely hand advantage to competitors willing to push forward. In a report, Anthropic framed a global moratorium as "likely a good thing", but only if enforced across the industry, not adopted by a single player.