The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” CEO Dario Amodei wrote in the post to his website. Amodei, who heads one of the world’s leading AI companies and the company behind Claude, has been a strong proponent for the technology’s advancement — a...