{"id":21640,"date":"2026-06-05T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/one-of-the-biggest-names-in-artificial-intelligence-is-calling-for-the-world-to-slow-down-happy-mag\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:58:29","slug":"one-of-the-biggest-names-in-artificial-intelligence-is-calling-for-the-world-to-slow-down-happy-mag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/one-of-the-biggest-names-in-artificial-intelligence-is-calling-for-the-world-to-slow-down-happy-mag\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the biggest names in artificial intelligence is calling for the world to slow down &#8211; &#8211; Happy Mag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tammy Moir<br \/><span class=\"posted-on\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-06-05T10:09:19+10:00\">June 5, 2026<\/time><\/span><br \/>by Tammy Moir<br \/><span class=\"posted-on\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-06-05T10:09:19+10:00\">June 5, 2026<\/time><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, has proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/amc-the-odyssey-where-to-get-tickets\/\">globally coordinated<\/a> pause on developing the most powerful frontier <a href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/ai-australia-hidden-gems-western-australia-fake-tourism-videos-opinion\/\">AI<\/a> systems, warning that the <a href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/evanescence-2027-australia-new-zealand-tour\/\">industry<\/a> could be approaching a point where machines begin improving themselves without human involvement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposal was outlined in a new blog post co-authored by Anthropic&#8217;s Head of Internal Research Marina Favaro and Head of Policy Jack Clark, and it&#8217;s already reignited one of tech&#8217;s biggest debates: what happens if AI becomes capable of evolving faster than humans can keep up?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the centre of Anthropic&#8217;s concerns is the idea of &#8220;recursive self-improvement&#8221; \u2013 the theoretical moment when an AI system becomes capable of rewriting its own code, fixing its own weaknesses and upgrading its own abilities without direct human oversight.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That scenario might sound like science fiction, but Anthropic believes it could be closer than many people think. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Clark, Claude models are already running on code that is roughly 80 per cent AI-written. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reaching a point where <a href=\"https:\/\/happymag.tv\/martin-scorsese-is-backing-ai-in-film\/\">AI<\/a> systems are maintaining and improving their own code entirely could happen within the next couple of years.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthropic argues that if that threshold is crossed, humans could lose meaningful visibility into how these systems are evolving. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A temporary slowdown, they say, would give researchers, governments and society more time to figure out how to safely manage increasingly powerful AI.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The challenge, however, is convincing everyone else to stop at the same time.<\/span><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>News and Entertainment from Australia&#8217;s favourite youth publisher<br \/>WE ARE HAPPY MEDIA PTY. LIMITED<br \/>GET HAPPY IN YOUR INBOX<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZ0FVX3lxTE8wd0lyb3FYWHlkSVhsM3hTSlpPMDZmMGd1bGZnaDJ3ODBWMHp6cEZwQTFxNm1oUFZaZFBYR1FZVTd4ZHhHYzgwcHpyajZmZml6LTVGWW9UWHNDbXZlcGNnNUx4bVRxXzA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tammy MoirJune 5, 2026by Tammy MoirJune 5, 2026Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, has proposed a globally coordinated pause on developing the most powerful frontier AI systems, warning that the industry could be approaching a point where machines begin improving themselves without human involvement.The proposal was outlined in a new blog post co-authored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}