United Kingdom, June 5 -- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark thinks AI needs a "brake pedal" to better monitor its progress.

The head of the company behind the popular Claude chatbot has warned that artificial intelligence will soon be at a place where it will be able to develop without human input.

He told BBC Newsnight: "You want the option to be able to take your foot off the gas and put your foot on the brake.

"Right now, it's like the AI industry has a gas pedal, but it doesn't have a brake pedal."

Clark insisted government policy is integral to controlling AI systems to make sure they are kept under control.

He added: "The world needs to do some thinking and we need to eventually develop some new regulations that allow us to be co...