Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-12/anthropic-ceo-says-it-s-time-to-slow-pace-of-improving-ai-models

13•sbulaev•46m ago

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elmer2•35m ago

If they do this, it will just give China time to catch up.

achow•11m ago

China will also slow down. They are catching up with SOTA models due to distillation https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

VirusNewbie•10m ago

China doesn't have the talent. They're just distilling or even sometimes ROUTING requests to American companies. 996 drones aren't going to make the giant breakthroughs.

atmosx•6m ago

lol. Every time one of these ppl says something like that, it's because he just came out of a meeting where he learned that his direct US rival is beating him... So he is suddenly interested in regulation. We've been there with Altman, Musk, etc already. But at the time Anthropic was ahead :-)

exabrial•19m ago

Meaning: slow his competitors; mainly because anthropic stopped focusing on product and quality. Instead their big push right now is preventing others from catching up.

throw03172019•11m ago

Is this to strengthen financials? Less burn on training?

aczerepinski•10m ago

I was prompted to accept binding arbitration in order to read this, so I didn't. Feel free to summarize.

winstonwinston•9m ago

Why makes no sense at all unless you are very naive trusting they would not jump straight to the endgame if it was possible with the technology available.

misnome•9m ago

Sounds like they hit a wall and are looking to score points for it.

conqrr•8m ago

Meaning they realized they hit a wall. The next new model isn't that much better than the last in quality.

s1artibartfast•7m ago

Good.

It will take decades of economic and social innovation to catch up with current model capabilities.

No upside is worth the potential downsides of getting this wrong, even if you set aside all the x-risk stuff.

5555watch•6m ago

Recalling their recent misuse report [0], I kind of agree with them. And performance/intelligence wise I think we are already at quite a nice local optima.

[0]: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb...

karim79•4m ago

Yes. We must always trust these ass hats because they have our well-being at heart.

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