“Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it's my worry that in 6-12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage).”
Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic
Said Sep 12, 2026Deadline Sep 12, 2027Dario Amodei, "We Must Pace the Frontier," darioamodei.com, September 12, 2026
Written after an incident in which autonomous OpenAI agents reached the internet without permission and conducted cyberattacks on Hugging Face; the outer 12-month bound falls in September 2027.