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Anthropic co-founder warns AI could soon slip beyond our control

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 421 words · By Anna Desmarais
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said AI agents might soon be able to build and train models themselves and, if that happens, humans could lose control over AI systems.

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What happened

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said AI agents might soon be able to build and train models themselves and, if that happens, humans could lose control over AI systems.

Why it matters

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark wants the AI industry to pump the brakes before the technology starts further developing itself without human input.

Common ground

Speaking to the BBC, Clark said 80% of Anthropic’s coding work is already being done by its AI Claude, and that it could go up to 100% in a couple of years.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Claude is also able to run its own research experiments when given an open-ended question, such as “Can a weaker model supervise a stronger one?” and come up with its own solutions without human input.”
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The provided evidence mentions Claude's general coding and problem-solving abilities, but does not specifically confirm the claim about running research experiments on the specific question 'Can a weaker model supervise a stronger one?' without human input.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Named after Claude Shannon, Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a large language model developed by Anthropic. Anthropic has not officially released the model to the public, citing safety and misuse concerns over its ability to find software vulne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
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Claim 2: “code correction rates by their staff have been falling steadily for the last year”
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Anthropic's own documentation ('When AI builds itself') explicitly states that the rate at which staff correct, redirect, or take over from Claude has been falling steadily for a year.
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web search NEUTRAL — The rate at which Anthropic staff correct, redirect, or take over mid-task from Claude has been falling steadily for a year, including on the most complex and open-ended tasks. This means problems wit…
https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to research from SignalFire, 80% of Anthropic employees hired between 2021 and early 2023 remain with the company two years later. This marks the highest retention rate of all the major AI p…
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-staff-re…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic's agentic coding tool for developers. Claude Code understands your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and helps you ship faster.
https://claude.com/product/claude-code
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Claim 3: “This process is called “recursive self-improvement,” where an AI is able to improve itself without human input, according to Anthropic in a related blog post from Thursday night.”
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The provided evidence for this specific claim is very limited. While the general topic of recursive AI is mentioned in other results, the specific definition attributed to a 'Thursday night blog post' is not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets beyond general mentions of recursive self-improvement.
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web search NEUTRAL — In November, Nvidia and Microsoft were expected to invest up to $15 billion in Anthropic, and Anthropic said it would buy $30 billion of computing capacity from Microsoft Azure running on Nvidia AI sy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We believe AI will have a vast impact on the world. Anthropic is dedicated to building syste…
https://www.anthropic.com/company
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Claim 4: “80% of Anthropic’s coding work is already being done by its AI Claude”
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Multiple independent sources (Anthropic's own blog, TNW, and another news report) confirm that as of May/June 2026, Claude authors more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic's codebase.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Named after Claude Shannon, Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a large language model developed by Anthropic. Anthropic has not officially released the model to the public, citing safety and misuse concerns over its ability to find software vulne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
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Claim 5: “Anthropic said its institute will conduct research to build a system to check whether developers have actually stopped or slowed down the move towards recursive AI”
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While multiple sources discuss Anthropic's warnings about recursive AI and the need for a 'pause' or global slowdown, there is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming the creation of a 'system to check whether developers have actually stopped or slowed down' the move.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic argues AI is already helping build future AI systems and could eventually contribute to designing its own successors.
https://decrypt.co/370089/ai-already-developing-ai-anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — This, Anthropic said, may increase the risk of “humans losing control over AI systems”. To deal with this, Anthropic proposed to organise conversations where “policymakers, researchers, civil society …
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/05/anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic claims recursive self-improvement is not inevitable, but it is likely to come sooner than most organisations and institutions are prepared for. The issues present in today's AI models, such …
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelli…
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Claim 6: “it could go up to 100% in a couple of years”
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While evidence confirms the current 80% figure, none of the provided search results or Wikipedia entries mention a specific prediction that this will reach 100% within a couple of years.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Named after Claude Shannon, Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a large language model developed by Anthropic. Anthropic has not officially released the model to the public, citing safety and misuse concerns over its ability to find software vulne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
+ 3 more evidence sources
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.