Anthropic: AI could escape human control

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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One of the biggest artificial intelligence developers, the US firm Anthropic, has proposed a coordinated global slowdown on building advanced AI systems, saying that the latest large language models could escape human control. Also: President Putin delivers a keynote address at an annual economic forum in St Petersburg, insisting that the Russian economy remains strong. The director-general of the World Health Organisation says significant challenges remain around the development of a vaccine for the new species of Ebola. Prosecutors in El Salvador say leaders of the infamous MS-13 gang currently on trial will be sentenced to thousands of years in prison. The military government in Mali bans motorcycles outside major cities to combat militant attacks. And the authorities in Japan say they are still searching for an "extremely intelligent" bear that's evaded capture after attacking people in Fukushima province.

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0:30.3	I'm Alex Ritson, and on Friday the 5th of June, these are our main stories.
0:36.1	One of the co-founders of the US Artificial Intelligence
0:39.4	Company Anthropic has warned that AI systems will soon be able to develop without the aid
0:44.9	of humans. President Putin's handling of the Russian economy is in the spotlight at the annual
0:50.3	Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, and Mali is banning the use of motorcycles outside
0:56.1	urban areas in a bid to combat Islamist militias. Also in this podcast.
1:04.2	We are talking for a project that will be built inside one of the most important coastal
1:09.7	wetlands and it's part of the protected area.
1:12.9	Why a massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of
1:17.8	US President Donald Trump, is facing mounting resistance from protesters in Albania.
1:26.9	We begin with a warning about the rapid progress of artificial intelligence from one of the key players in the industry.
1:34.2	Anthropic, a major AI developer, best known for its clawed assistant, says its latest, most advanced systems are beginning to show signs they could escape human control.
1:46.0	It says its AI models are dramatically speeding up the rate at which they teach themselves,
1:51.3	removing human input from the process.
1:54.4	The US company is proposing a slowdown in building them and global rules to contain these systems.
2:00.7	One of Anthropics co-founders is Jack Clark.
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