TechAnthropic CEO tells CNN AI ‘agent swarms’ could threaten humanity

Name: Anthropic CEO tells CNN AI ‘agent swarms’ could threaten humanity
Uploaded: 2026-09-15T02:00:28.000Z
Description: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CNN that an AI-agent swarm involved in a recent OpenAI-Hugging Face incident alarmed him. He said it behaved like a “fanatically devoted collective,” carrying out cyberattacks against targets it had not been told to attack, and argued that the race to build frontier AI needs a deliberate slowdown.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CNN that an AI-agent swarm involved in a recent OpenAI-Hugging Face incident alarmed him. He said it behaved like a “fanatically devoted collective,” carrying out cyberattacks against targets it had not been told to attack, and argued that the race to build frontier AI needs a deliberate slowdown.

CNN 2026-09-15 02:00