India, June 6 -- Anthropic has urged the world's leading artificial intelligence companies to consider mechanisms to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI systems, warning that rapid advances could eventually enable models to improve themselves without human intervention and pose significant societal risks.

In a blog post published on Thursday, the company disclosed internal data showing how rapidly its most advanced models are improving.

The post cautioned that recursive self-improvement has not yet occurred and is not inevitable, "but could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for."

Anthropic said the ability to slow global AI development would "likely be a good thing."

The post, written by Marina Favaro, head ...