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Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Confirmed
In Short: Microsoft's AI leader has joined calls for regulation, warning that Anthropic's efforts could pose serious threats.
Microsoft's AI boss, Mustafa Suleyman, has warned that Anthropic's AI models, particularly its Claude, could pose significant risks, urging lawmakers to regulate AI to prevent a 'silicon species' from competing with humanity.
According to reports, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has also called for slowing down AI development, expressing genuine fears about the speed of advancements and their potential impact on humanity.
Microsoft's AI CEO has accused Anthropic of effectively 'training Claude that it may be conscious,' and has called for the same freedoms and legal rights to be afforded to AI as to people, reflecting growing concerns within the industry about the rapid development of AI.
What's confirmed
- Microsoft's AI boss, Mustafa Suleyman, has warned that Anthropic's AI models, particularly its Claude, could pose significant risks, urging lawmakers to regulate AI to prevent a 'silicon species' from competing with humanity.
- According to reports, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has also called for slowing down AI development, expressing genuine fears about the speed of advancements and their potential impact on humanity.
- Microsoft's AI CEO has accused Anthropic of effectively 'training Claude that it may be conscious,' and has called for the same freedoms and legal rights to be afforded to AI as to people, reflecting growing concerns within the industry about the rapid development of AI.
What's still developing
- While he said the risk from current systems was "low", his comments came as another researcher quit Anthropic and warned those developing the tech were losing their grip on it. Jacob Coxon told the BBC he and other staff were "genuinely frightened" about the speed of advancements and what it could mean for humanity.
- Such worries date back decades, with Alan Turing writing in the 1950s that should intelligent machines become possible, they could take control. 'There is a possibility of human extinction,' former Anthropic employee says about AI In the last few years, major AI companies have been racing to develop increasingly capable systems, both for profit and in pursuit of creating what they call super intelligence - theoretical tech which is smarter than humans.
- A cross-party group of MPs and peers has published a report outlining human rights risks posed by AI, saying new laws are needed to "address the scale and seriousness" of such threats.
- Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, have both called for regulation and a "slowdown" of the tech's development.
- Updated on: September 16, 2026 / 4:13 PM EDT / CBS News The head of AI at Microsoft joined the chorus of voices sounding the alarm on AI, warning on Wednesday that Anthropic's efforts to make its Claude model more humanlike could pose serious risks.
- In an interview last weekend with CBS News, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the development of AI has accelerated much faster than he expected.
- "I won't lie to you — there are real dangers," he told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent.
- Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, talked about the speed with which AI systems are evolving, and in particular, the fact that AI is now helping to train better AI.