SPAIN PERSPECTIVE

Madrid picks the angle that best illuminates the nature of the gesture: Expansión quotes Anthropic on the most disturbing data point: "more than 80% of the code it integrates into its own development is written by its AI Claude, while in February 2025 that figure was in the low single digits." Tenfold growth in fifteen months. That number, more than any rhetoric, justifies the pause request. The paper also highlights context: Anthropic is the world's most valuable AI startup — $965B after its latest Series H round — and is filing its IPO confidentially with the SEC. Expansión recalls a precedent no French source mentions: three years ago, thousands of researchers and entrepreneurs signed a manifesto demanding an AI development moratorium. That moratorium failed. Anthropic's proposal is not a temporary pause but "a verifiable mechanism that allows development to be stopped if systems reach the capacity to improve themselves without human intervention." Madrid also highlights Anthropic's communication strategy: "some analysts have pointed out that this type of message has contributed to projecting an image of technological superiority." This is the most lucid analysis in the pool — Anthropic is not just warning, it is differentiating itself commercially by warning.