Titans of the artificial intelligence world urged companies –including their own — to immediately “slow the pace” of development, or face an imminent web takeover by rogue bots. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a chilling essay on Saturday warning AI trailblazers to commit to a three-part plan to prevent catastrophe and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly echoed a similar sentiment. “Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage),…