Anthropic on Thursday urged leading AI labs to consider slowing frontier AI development, saying rapid model advances could soon enable autonomous self‑improvement without human intervention and create major societal risk. In a blog post releasing internal data, Anthropic documented swift performance gains in its top models and said progress appears to be moving toward “recursive self‑improvement.” The company proposed a global agreement to slow frontier AI work and a mechanism to verify competit

Anthropic on Thursday urged leading AI labs to consider slowing frontier AI development, saying rapid model advances could soon enable autonomous self‑improvement without human intervention and create major societal risk. In a blog post releasing internal data, Anthropic documented swift performance gains in its top models and said progress appears to be moving toward “recursive self‑improvement.” The company proposed a global agreement to slow frontier AI work and a mechanism to verify competitors’ compliance, arguing a pause would allow social institutions and related research to catch up.