New Delhi, June 5 -- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has warned that artificial intelligence is accelerating towards a threshold at which it will be capable of developing more advanced versions of itself without human involvement, calling on governments to build regulatory mechanisms that could slow the technology's progression before that moment arrives.

The remarks, made in separate interviews with BBC Newsnight and Axios, is one of the most direct public warnings from within the AI industry about the pace and direction of its own development.

Jack Clark's central argument is structural: the AI industry currently has no mechanism to slow itself down.

"You want the option to be able to take your foot off the gas and put your foot on t...