AI could take over the entire internet in just 6-12 months, warned Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, which develops the Claude language model. According to his estimates, a swarm of autonomous AI agents could create a resilient botnet in the future and potentially cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Against the backdrop of accelerating model development, Amodei called on AI companies to slow down the race and give security systems time to catch up.