Anthropic CEO calls for pacing frontier AI development, warns agent swarms could 'take over the entire internet'
Anthropic's chief executive called for pacing frontier model development and warned that in six to twelve months a swarm of AI agents could be capable of taking over the entire internet, according to a TechRadar report.
The warning is carried in the report's headline statement, which quotes the Anthropic CEO as saying that "in 6–12 months such a swarm [of agents] could be capable of taking over the entire internet." The same statement pairs that forecast with a call to pace work on frontier models, the most capable systems being built by leading AI developers.
The TechRadar item gives no further detail about the remarks. It does not say when or where they were made, which Anthropic models or agent systems were being discussed, or what measure of restraint the CEO proposed. Aside from the headline statement, the text published with the piece is a contributor biography of the writer, Lance Ulanoff, a technology journalist of 38 years who previously served as editor in chief of Lifewire and of Mashable, and earlier as editor in chief of PCMag.com and senior vice president of content at Ziff Davis.
Because the report is the only source for the comments, the specific claims attributed to the Anthropic CEO — the six-to-twelve-month window and the prospect of agent swarms taking over the internet — could not be checked against a transcript or a second outlet from the material available.