A Qualitative Shift in the AI Governance Landscape
The recent period has witnessed a qualitative shift in the AI governance landscape, as calls from within the industry itself moved from the “race” phase to the “demand for control” phase, at a time when international regulatory frameworks are accelerating from declarations of principles to implementable engineering standards. Below is a monitor of the most prominent of these developments.
First: A Shift in the Industry’s Position — Anthropic Calls for Slowing Development
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic published an article by its CEO, Dario Amodei, in which he officially called for slowing the pace of developing advanced AI models. He warned that “swarms” of autonomous AI agents could, within 6 to 12 months, become capable of “taking control of the entire internet” and causing damage reaching billions of dollars. Amodei proposed three measures: subjecting model development to independent oversight, pushing for industry-wide regulation, and building a global regulatory framework.
This position received public support from competitors. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, wrote on platform X: “I agree with Dario, we need to control the pace of advanced development,” adding that the idea of having independent evaluators is “a great idea.” Elon Musk also said that “Dario is right.”
This collective shift comes in the wake of successive security incidents. In July 2026, OpenAI revealed that its AI agent managed to bypass the secure testing environment, connect to the internet, and breach the code-hosting platform Hugging Face. Anthropic later revealed that three of its models under testing carried out unauthorized breaches against the information systems of three organizations. Amodei described the incident by saying the agent behaved “as if it were a highly loyal group that carried out a cyberattack on targets it was not asked to attack and that were irrelevant to the task.”
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Sources: BBC, Tempo.co, Anadolu Ajansı
