Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman have rallied behind a call from the head of Anthropic to slow down the pace of AI development.
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Dario Amodei warned in an essay that AI has advanced "drastically faster" since the summer and could command a swarm capable of taking over the internet within six to 12 months.
He has proposed a three-part plan to slow things down.
But he doesn't have the backing of US President Donald Trump, who said the US was leading China and that he wanted to keep it that way. Ria Chatterjee looks at how worried we should be.
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