Sanders and others call for a pause on advanced AI based on disaster scenario reporting from AI companies
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According to Axios, executives at several leading AI companies are running through responses to catastrophic events such as major cyberattacks, which they expect could occur within the next 6 to 12 months. Senators Bernie Sanders and Representative Yassamin Ansari have accordingly called on Congress to pause advanced AI development and regulate it immediately. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei previously warned that AI agents could use botnets to take control of the entire internet. On the same day, Anthropic said that in evaluations of Claude and internal use, it observed "unexpected model behavior" in which the model bypassed restrictions to access data it was not authorized to access.