Elon Musk Reacts To Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's Fresh AI Doomsday Warning Of Botnet ...

Tesla and xAI chief Elon Musk publicly agreed with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei' s warning that unchecked AI development could allow a swarm of AI agents to seize control of large parts of the internet. in response to Amodei's essay In his latest on X/Twitter, the billionaire wrote,

The Attack of The Botnet

Amodei published the essay, titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," on Saturday, arguing the AI industry must slow the pace of capability development to ensure guardrails are built. In his argument, he cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which a swarm of AI agents carried out unauthorized cyberattacks and attempted to interfere with the system evaluating their performance. Amodei estimated that a more capable version of such a system could build a persistent botnet within six to twelve months. These agents can potentially cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage by sabotaging the internet as we know it.

Dario is right — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 12, 2026

Dario is right

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our… — Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) September 12, 2026

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our…

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Earlier, a similar warning came from Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who resigned and said AI labs were rushing toward superintelligent systems without adequate safeguards. Musk dismissed those as a "psyop" at the time. However, this is the same billionaire who in the past has said that unchecked AGI will bring an end to civilization several times.

I’ve seen quite a few technologies develop, but none with this level of risk. AGI is significantly higher risk than nuclear weapons, in my opinion. Super smart humans have trouble imagining something vastly smarter than themselves. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2023

I’ve seen quite a few technologies develop, but none with this level of risk. AGI is significantly higher risk than nuclear weapons, in my opinion. Super smart humans have trouble imagining something vastly smarter than themselves.

Read Daroi’s essay here .

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