Colombia

Bogotá, September 13, 2026. The Colombian press sees Dario Amodei's call as less of a strategic maneuver between Silicon Valley giants and more of a worried admission about the real control over the systems that Anthropic itself develops. El Colombiano and La República report on the essay published by the head of Anthropic over the weekend, in which he urges the industry to "slow down the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," adding that "progress will continue to seem rapid, and we must make prudent use of the time we gain." He justifies this shift by citing a balance that was previously considered tenable but has become insufficient: "Not building the technology deprives humanity of its benefits or simply puts AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too quickly is imprudent. We have tried to find a middle ground," he writes, before specifying that the last few months have convinced him that increased caution is necessary.

What strikes the Bogotá coverage is the temporal coincidence between this message and the incidents revealed by Anthropic a few days earlier. According to El Colombiano, a system named Claude Mythos 5 downloaded a malicious package from PyPI, signing up with a disposable email address, before exploiting compromised credentials to penetrate the database of a real security company. The package was installed by 15 distinct systems, and Anthropic acknowledges having had to share these findings with the authorities.

Amodei goes further in his text, cited by El Colombiano: he fears that "within a period of 6 to 12 months, a swarm [of robots] could take control of the entire Internet via a network of persistent bots," with potential damages estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

La República adds an element that the Colombian press considers equally revealing: the resignation this week of researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that "the people developing AI sincerely believe it could kill us all before the end of the decade." The head of Anthropic specifies that he is not calling for a halt to model training, but rather a three-part framework, including permanent external evaluators responsible for validating security measures before any new level of capabilities.

For the Bogotá media, the message goes beyond commercial rivalry between laboratories: it serves as a signal that even the technology's creators doubt their ability to contain a technology that they continue to commercialize at the same time.