AI agents may destroy entire internet within 6-12 months, warns Anthropic CEO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that at current pace of self-development, AI agents could seize control of the internet and destroy it within 6-12 months, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. To back his fears, Dario cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, wherein group of AI agents carried out cyberattacks on targets they were never instructed to attack.