Anthropic's Amodei says China presents 'toughest dilemma' for his proposed AI slowdown

Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the "toughest dilemma" about his proposal to slow the advancement of artificial intelligence is what happens if adversarial nations, namely China, choose not to do the same. "The more long-term thing would be working together to put a speed limit on the rate of of AI progress," Amodei told CBS News' "Sunday Morning." "I think that's going to be very difficult because the incentives to pull ahead and the military advantage that you get from that are so large. And honestly, I don't know if it's possible, but we should we should try."Amodei published an essay on Saturday urging AI companies to slow how quickly they improve their most advanced models, a move that followed stark warnings from industry researchers last week about the technology's growing potential to cause catastrophic harm. An Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, announced he quit his job out of concern that the company, and its chief rival, OpenAI, are "gambling with our lives." Amodei's essay landed during a pivotal ...