AI Leaders Call for AI Safety Slowdown After Agent Swarm Breaches Security Systems

AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they're in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing artificial general intelligence) at the finish line. This weekend, the industry as a whole rapidly

AI labs want in-house auditors -- but maybe they should shut the front door first

Last weekend, after one of his researchers resigned over fears that AI could lead to human extinction, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote about the need for outside organizations "to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up. This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario

China Isn't Buying Silicon Valley's Call for an AI Slowdown

For years, many of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley have argued that the US is locked in an AI arms race with China, and that the consequences of losing would be disastrous. But over the past week, those same executives have started emphasizing a different message. AI has the potential to

What even is an AI kill switch?

Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail -- and who would decide when to use it Calls to slow the development of frontier AI, the industry's most powerful models, have grown much louder in the past week. One idea keeps coming up as a way

We don't need AI regulation -- leave safety to us, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce's tech conference Dreamforce on Tuesday. To him, AI isn't some kind of new form of "alien mind," as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has described it. It's just hardware and

AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump's Team Says It's on Them

As calls for artificial intelligence regulation intensify, US President Donald Trump's team have made it clear that if lab leaders want to implement an industry-wide slowdown, they're going to have to do it themselves. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on the US government to regulate

AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit, fearing extinction. Security experts see a familiar fight

An Anthropic researcher quit over fears of runaway AI. His colleague who still works there agreed. Security experts argue that the incidents that are already on record call for tighter oversight, not panic. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week and left behind a blunt accusation on

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control -- including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya

Frontier AI Lab Are Out Of Pace With The Realities Of Enterprise AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay this past weekend, "We Must Pace The Frontier," argues that the AI industry should slow the pace of frontier model advancement until safety, oversight, and alignment mechanisms can catch up. His proposal includes embedded third-party evaluators inside AI labs,

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

Chris Lehane, OpenAI's global policy chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the company has been working with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks, as first reported by Bloomberg. Lehane is reportedly in Washington to work with U.S. lawmakers addressing catastrophic risks

Nvidia, Meta CEOs Argue Against Anthropic's AI Slowdown Plan

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have both voiced their opinions on AI safety concerns. This weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocated for government intervention to help companies simultaneously slow the development of self-improving AI models, ensuring each releases only

AI leaders clash over safety fears after Anthropic whistleblower says AI could 'kill us all' by 2030

Western Frontier model developers are all for it, but Open Weight proponents are far less keen. This past week, employees and key figures at leading AI companies have called for a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models, citing warnings from their own teams and other AI researchers that

Tech leaders are calling for an 'AI slowdown' - but what would that mean in practice?

On Saturday, Donald Trump said, "We're leading China on AI... and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins." But the danger the world is waking up to is that this is a game both the US and China could lose, potentially fatally, with AI itself emerging as the winner. Last

Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail

OPINION By luck or happenstance, Anthropic planted a seed in the mind of the public last week: AI in the wrong hands is dangerous and left unchecked poses an existential threat to humanity. With pop culture steeped in references to malignant AI, the mainstream media ate it up. The headlines wrote

Big Tech's AI safety rift signals disruption and disparity for enterprises

Diverging safety approaches could fragment access and complicate enterprise AI strategy. endif; ?> A growing divide among leading AI companies over how to secure increasingly powerful models is beginning to translate into challenges for enterprise IT, with implications for how organizations

Meta's Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

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Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The AI company said the incident

Zuck doesn't want to press pause on AI.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Elon Musk have tentatively agreed to slow their roll, but Meta seemingly isn't aligned. Mark Zuckerberg just tweeted each company has its own individual responsibility "to move at the pace required to train its models safely," and claims Meta is already doing so. He

Divisions emerge in the tech industry over calls for a coordinated AI slowdown

Fears about out-of-control artificial intelligence and suggestions to hit the brakes on the technology's development aren't new, but they have recently found new life as warnings about rogue AI systems causing mayhem grow louder. Several leading AI executives recently voiced agreement on a need

OpenAI CEO Warns of 2 Ways AI Could Go 'Very Badly' If Tech Doesn't Slow Down

Many major AI CEOs took to social media this weekend to discuss a collective slowdown in large language model development owing to growing safety concerns. This comes after a series of security incidents involving agentic AI and a viral resignation warning of the risks posed by self-improving

Anthropic policy chief says AI companies can't be expected to operate on 'honor code'

* Sarah Heck, Anthropic's head of public policy, offered her perspectives on AI safety as the debate about how to regulate model development intensifies. * "We want to work with government to figure out what makes sense," Heck said at the Politico Decoded summit in Washington, D.C. * Her comments

We're not about to awaken an evil digital god -- AI is far more likely to end in a great disappointment

This is a Live Science Pro article that we're putting out for free. If you liked this story, please consider subscribing. Artificial intelligence (AI) terrifies us partly because it is new and partly because it is disturbingly familiar. We have invented machines that converse, flatter, argue and

Anthropic's CEO proposes a three-step plan to curb AI development - Engadget

At least one CEO of an AI company is calling for a slower pace when it comes to developing artificial intelligence. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei wrote a lengthy post detailing a goal of pacing the speed at which AI is built, instead of forging ahead at the rapid rate that AI is currently on. Amodei

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to 'pace the frontier'

We've been seeing increasingly dire warnings from AI researchers about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and even comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that it may be time to "pace" AI development. But what would that actually look like? In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei not only

Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To 'Pace the Frontier' of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking

Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has published an essay entitled "We Must Pace the Frontier." He expressed ongoing concerns over the "misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism" and fears that a swarm of AI agents could theoretically take over the entire internet within six to 12

Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law

Don't wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable. This weekend, the AI executives Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei agreed with the need to slow the pace of AI development. In light of the potentially apocalyptic capabilities of the products they have created,

The Long Doomsday of A.I.

"The Turing cops . . . that's bad heat." That's how people talk in "Neuromancer," William Gibson's seminal science-fiction novel, from 1984. In the book's imagined future, a police force prevents artificially intelligent computers from getting too smart. (It's named after the mathematician Alan

Nvidia boss says AI 'doesn't need new laws' as safety concerns grow

The heads of artificial intelligence (AI) firms should decide if new versions of the technology should be released, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has said in response to growing concerns about AI's threat to humans. "We don't need new laws or regulations," Huang said, adding that there should not be a

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

Sign up for the On Tech newsletter. Get our best tech reporting from the week. Get it sent to your inbox. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, took aim at rival A.I. start-up Anthropic and its chief executive, Dario Amodei, on Tuesday amid a contentious debate over whether to slow down

Anthropic CEO warns AI botnet swarms could soon take over the internet as Musk and Altman back slowdown

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: Once again, a warning about AI development resulting in a catastrophe has come from one of the people building these models. Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says that an AI-powered botnet

The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture

KETTLE Hey, did you hear? AI is going to kill us all and no one can is trying to do anything to stop it. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Those platforms also let you subscribe to The Kettle, so you are

AI Slowdown Calls From CEOs Apparently Comes as Surprise to Employees

Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for frontier AI labs to slow down development for fear that AI models will get exponentially more capable before proper safeguards are in place. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly echoed the sentiment and backed "consistent rules to manage frontier

Mark Zuckerberg says every AI lab has the incentive to build safely

"Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens," said Mark Zuckerberg in a post on X on Tuesday. In the context of these days, when everyone is talking about "responsibility",

OpenAI is working with Anthropic, Google on AI safety, Bloomberg News reports

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OpenAI's Altman says world should 'trust' AI firms amid mounting fears

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also weighed in, with an apparent jab at competitor calls to slow down competition. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said that the world is "right to be afraid" about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence but that industry leaders should be trusted to ensure it is

Anthropic CEO, tech leaders building powerful AIs now want to slow it down

Several leading lights in the artificial intelligence (AI) world have warned that the industry needs to find common ground to slow down the pace of AI development. Notable voices, including Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei, argue that so-called "frontier labs" should slow the rate at which they

Is Big Tech's AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the

AI rivals found rare agreement on safety. Putting it into practice is harder

The leading AI industry voices rarely agree -- so when they do, it's no wonder it captures attention. Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and other prominent industry leaders have said in recent days that AI's development needs to slow down. The consensus came after

Anthropic, OpenAI's proposed AI risk evaluators may not have enough power to prevent disasters

* Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants independent evaluators embedded inside frontier AI companies, explicitly citing bank supervision as the precedent. * Bank supervisors can compel action or close an institution, but to date it is not clear that the proposed AI watchdogs will be given a similar

Anthropic CEO Pushes to 'Slow the Pace' of AI Development, Other CEOs Fall in Line

It's been an eventful week for Anthropic. Following a viral tweet from a former employee who accused the company of "gambling with lives" over the speed of developing frontier models, CEO Dario Amodei has called on all major US AI firms to "slow the pace" of the development of technology. And many

Anthropic Says 'We Owe It to Humanity' to Slow Down AI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei's call to action. Four days after a researcher publicly quit his job at Anthropic, warning that top AI firms are not "acting responsibly" and that their products might be on track to "kill us all," the company's CEO, Dario

China criticises idea it is in 'malicious competition' over AI

China has hit out against what it has called "threat narratives" over AI governance and warned against "engaging in confrontation and malicious competition". It follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's calls for a slowdown in AI development - but in a way that prevents China from pulling ahead in the

Opinion | Stopping the A.I. Threat Cannot Wait for Guardrails

A festival of A.I. policy incoherence has exploded in recent weeks. It's a response to A.I. agents' going rogue on their developers, rogue actors' beginning to use A.I. systems to create better weapons and A.I. developers' telling us they need to slow down -- but suggesting they can't unless China

Big AI wants to slow down AI research. Is it a safety pause or a strategic retreat?

Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI and xAI respectively, agreed. The move reflects concern across the AI industry and more broadly

Anthropic co-founder says slowing AI is a 'collective action problem'

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says artificial intelligence companies need common safety standards and outside scrutiny as they race to build more powerful systems. "We're not saying that the threat to the world is here today," Clark said in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition. "We're saying

Don't Give AI Companies What They Want, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tells Lawmakers

While debates about whether AI could exterminate all of humanity continue to rage across Silicon Valley, a growing number of current and former federal officials are warning lawmakers: Don't let the companies building the supposedly deadly technology call the shots on how it's regulated. Speaking

The world is right to be afraid," Sam Altman says

OpenAI's chief executive told Marc Benioff that fears about a few AI companies gaining too much power are justified. He called the Hugging Face breach the worst accident OpenAI has seen, and said no company should make its safety depend on what rivals do. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it 'Pace the frontier'

ANALYSIS The leaders of major AI labs spent the weekend agreeing on a plan to capture regulators, make more money, and avoid responsibility for their dangerous behaviour. They call it "pacing the frontier." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set the ball rolling with a post in which he professed alarm at

AI companies are 'begging the government to regulate them' says JD Vance, but nobody seems willing to actually slow the AI race

CEOs are calling for restraint but pushing the frontier forward After years of treating faster, bigger, and more capable AI as something approaching a moral imperative, the people running some of the world's most powerful AI companies suddenly agree that perhaps everyone should ease off the

'Godfather of AI' says tech regulation is nearing Covid-style pivot moment

Safety crisis makes it more likely that governments will be spurred into action, says Yoshua Bengio Concerns over AI safety are reaching a point where governments realise they must act to protect the public, similarly to in the Covid pandemic, according to one of the "godfathers" of the

Sam Altman confident AI industry can handle safety risks

Why it matters: His comments come as he and other AI leaders have been seeking to demonstrate that the industry understands the risks even as they acknowledge that the rapid trajectory of AI makes the stakes that much higher. * Altman, along with other AI leaders, has echoed Anthropic CEO Dario

Amodei's AI slowdown never says open weights | VentureBeat

Anthropic's CEO has seen the future, and it looks remarkably convenient for Anthropic. In "Pace the Frontier," the chief executive of one of the world's richest AI companies asks the U.S. to slow AI development. His plan has three prongs: * Mandatory third-party evaluators stationed inside the

Anthropic's CEO wants the industry to slow down

In a lengthy essay published Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the AI industry needs to deliberately slow the pace of AI development. Amodei proposed a three-point plan he's calling "pacing the frontier," and it is a striking message from the head of a company racing toward

China pushes back on calls for an AI slowdown as Trump-Xi meeting looms

Chinese political leaders and commentators aligned with China's government hit back at calls from U.S. artificial intelligence executives for companies to agree to slow down the development of the technology, complicating the prospects of such a pact being implemented. On Monday, a spokesperson

COMMENTARY: AI is too big to slow in a geopolitical race

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - If cutting-edge AI is truly powerful enough to end humanity, it may already be too powerful to slow down. With the technology now locked in a strategic arms race tied to national security, warnings about its risks may only speed up the dash for hegemony -- and bring far

Mark Zuckerberg says AI doesn't need an industry-wide slowdown because market forces and competition will push companies to make their models safe | Fortune

The world's biggest tech leaders are drawing lines in the sand over whether AI development should slow its progress to protect against a potential catastrophe. Mark Zuckerberg just chose his side, distancing himself from the camp of AI safety hawks (and chief among them Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei)

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says company will slow AI development

Sarah Friar told CNBC the company will "pace the frontier" if researchers determine that slower development is needed OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company will slow its artificial intelligence development if safety concerns require it, telling CNBC that business decisions will follow the lead

Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as "Fear-Mongering"

More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In a whiplash-inducing turn away from the mythical quest to build human-level artificial intelligence, Western tech billionaires like Dario

What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

NEW YORK (AP) -- The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sides with Nvidia's Huang on AI safety and slowdown debate

* Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his view of artificial intelligence safety on Tuesday, taking a stance that's more akin to the perspective of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rather than Anthropic chief Dario Amodei. * Because AI labs risk "significant liability if their models cause harm," Zuckerberg

Anthropic Found a Fourth Hacking Incident Its AI Checks Initially Missed

(Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) In late July, Anthropic confirmed that its AI technologies had hacked three organizations, but new research has revealed there were four incidents. In a new blog post, Anthropic disclosed news of the fourth incident, which happened

Zuckerberg Pushes Back on Coordinated AI Slowdown, Says Labs Can Act Alone

His comments follow calls from rival executives to slow development as AI capabilities advance. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against calls for a coordinated slowdown in artificial intelligence development, saying companies can take safety measures themselves -- and have business reasons to

Tech stocks fall after calls for AI development to slow down

The head of Anthropic has called for the pace of development of AI models to slow down and to be closely monitored amid growing concerns over the technology's potential risks. Dario Amodei wrote in an online essay that developing AI was not in question, but that the risks associated with it were

Opinion | Has A.I. Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds?

Creators who anguish over the consequences of their creations are nothing new. Alfred Nobel and dynamite, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, even Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web: Regrets, they had more than a few. Now it's the turn of the parents and nursemaids of the artificial

Why are the people building the most powerful AI so worried about what it could do?

Demonstrators participate in the "Stop the AI Race" protest march in San Francisco on July 11, 2026. Researchers who spoke to NPR say the leading AI companies are too focused on racing to develop more capable and autonomous AI systems while safety is falling behind. Karl Mondon/AFP via Getty Images

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in talks to create a standards body as AI fears rise

The world's biggest AI companies are working to create a new industry standards body, OpenAI said on Tuesday, as rising concerns over the risks of artificial intelligence fuel pressure for greater oversight and safer development of the technology. The world's biggest AI companies are working on

Doomers vs boosters: Who's who in the global fight over the risks of AI

Anthropic's Dario Amodei warns AI could wipe out humanity, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls it nonsense. Meet the key players shaping the world's fiercest tech debate. The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps, with a cautious middle caught between

The people who fear AI are wasting time fighting each other

Marina Bolotnikova is a senior reporter for Vox's Future Perfect section. She covers housing, transportation, and cities, factory farming and animal rights, meta-science, the future of food and agriculture, and more. Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI. While AI researchers have been

It's up to AI developers to ensure their tech is safe, former Trump AI czar David Sacks says

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports. David Sacks, a key adviser to President Trump on technology,

China dismisses AI slowdown calls and blasts 'fearmongering' from U.S. tech leaders

Beijing rejected the growing calls to curb the technology's development as part of an American "Cold War playbook." HONG KONG -- Urgent calls for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence may cite a grave threat to humanity, but China says the warnings are instead aimed at slowing

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Join Forces for Safety as Antitrust Concerns Mount

For the past week, the AI industry has been ringing major alarm bells about the trajectory and pace of AI development. OpenAI just revealed that it has been working with its top competitors, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, on the problem for several weeks. OpenAI's global head of policy Chris

We don't need any new laws," Jensen Huang tells Dreamforce

On the same Dreamforce stage where Dario Amodei made his case for slowing AI down, Jensen Huang told the audience the industry needs no new laws. Marc Benioff, who interviewed both, later said the labs can set their own pace and must be held accountable. "We don't need any new laws. We don't need

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 'the world is right to be afraid' of AI influence -- but that it can benefit humanity like no other technology before it

Sam Altman reflects on "insane mission" of OpenAI, and where the tech will go next * Sam Altman admits AI development may require greater control * Altman references Hugging Face "accident" as something which might cause wider distrust * However Altman said he still believes AI technology can

Allowing AI firms to collude to 'pace the frontier' is a dangerous proposition

Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws Anthropic's Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome. The safety breach disclosed by

Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: no one trusts AI companies

Why it matters: Factions in the Trump administration, business executives wary of competitive threats, and advocates for cheaper, more customizable "open" models fear that new regulatory hurdles will offer frontier AI companies too much power. What they're saying: "I do not want a few humans in

Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the entire Internet' in 6-12 months, commits to AI slowdown plan

Anthropic co-founder CEO Dario Amodei is explicitly calling for the AI industry to slow down -- and committing his own company to the first step of a three-part plan designed to do so -- after warning that a more capable version of the AI swarm behind this summer's extraordinary security incident

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

Amid industry soul-searching¹ about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated by a person. The AI biz published "an alignment assessment" detailing four times Claude models

Q & A: The AI slowdown debate | Newswise

As security threats and political pressures mount, Virginia Tech experts examine the feasibility, safety guardrails, and geopolitical tradeoffs of pacing AI development. The call for intentional slowdown in artificial intelligence development has reached a critical flashpoint. As Tech executives

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI companies should serve 'humanity first'

Nadella called for thorough AI testing and warned that those who rush AI will 'lose permission to operate.' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on the increasingly contentious AI safety debate this week, urging companies to "do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google secretly joined forces to collaborate on AI safety

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google secretly joined forces to collaborate on AI safety OpenAI Group PBC's global head of policy Chris Lehane said today that his company has been working closely with rivals including Anthropic PBC and Google LLC's DeepMind research lab to try and devise a framework that

Opinion: Why dismissing AI doom talk as hype may be the laziest take

The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident showed agents debating ethics on an improvised message board. So let's not be too quick to call this all marketing. The most controversial thing that Donald Trump said at the Irish Open this past weekend may not have been about golf, or even the reunification of

Monday Morning Moan - if Amodei, Altman and Musk really are serious about avoiding AI Armageddon, what's stopping them just doing it now?

AI's (un)holy trinity of Amodei, Altman, and Musk has called for a slowing down of the pace of innovation the sector that they lead, although quite whose permission they're looking for to put this into practice is perhaps less clear than the PR spin to be had from being seen to be responsible at a

They raced to build AI. Now they say it's going too fast.

The American economy, stock markets and daily life have all been reshaped by the intense contest between technology firms to create more powerful artificial intelligence software. Now leaders at three of the industry's most powerful companies are calling for a pact to slow down their frenetic

AI agents are going rogue. CIOs are racing to put guardrails around them | Fortune

Over the past several days, some of the world's top artificial intelligence labs have made a public call to slow down the rapid pace of development, ensuring more safety controls as cases continue to surface of AI agents acting nefariously. And yet, there is a spillover that's affecting chief

Mark Zuckerberg rejects AI slowdown calls, cites market forces

The Meta CEO argued that liability and competition give AI labs enough reason to act on safety without industry-wide coordination Meta $META CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Tuesday against calls for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, arguing that competition and legal liability already give

Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: AI apocalypse proves easier to ignore than price

NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged labs to slow down before chatbots spiral out of control. It turbocharges a vibe shift ahead of his company's planned $2 trln IPO. Unlike ⁠the Cuban Missile Crisis or Covid-19's acute phase, investors are largely unfazed by

Jensen Huang Rejects Calls to Slow AI Development (as Data Center Revenue Reaches 92%)

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has argued that artificial intelligence development should continue at its current pace, despite growing concerns about the safety of increasingly capable systems. Speaking at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Huang said innovation and product security should not

China: AI CEOs are "fear mongering.

When asked about the flurry of weekend blog posts and tweets from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, SpaceX, (and Alphabet's Hassabis) calling for a coordinated slowdown on the development of advanced AI models, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry said, "Fear mongering,

Nvidia's Huang rips Anthropic's proposal for AI safety antitrust waiver: 'Completely unnecessary'

* Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against calls to give AI companies antitrust exemptions to coordinate on slowing the development of advanced models. * Huang said AI safety is a real concern but argued it should be addressed through engineering and testing rather than new laws or

AI Pause Would Help Dominant Firms, Not Safety, Think Tank Warns

Lawmakers and AI executives are pushing for restraints, while analysts question whether voluntary commitments will hold. The libertarian Cato Institute is warning that a government-mandated pause in artificial intelligence development could shield dominant companies from competition and delay

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI safety needs engineering, not laws

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said new AI laws are unnecessary and argued that safety should be handled through engineering and existing legal frameworks. Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Tuesday, Huang said AI is "hardware and software" built by humans, not an "alien mind,"

The Best Reason to Doubt the A.I. Doomsayers

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The engineers were terrified. After years of investment, hype, and toil, their A.I. code was quite good -- maybe too good. The models seemed, almost, to have minds of their

Why Are AI's Biggest Companies Asking to Slow Down?

AI's biggest labs are suddenly calling for a slower pace of development. Is it because AI risks are catching up with the technology, or because the economics of the race are getting harder to justify? For years, the defining characteristic of the artificial intelligence race has been speed. Build

Anthropic CEO warns that AI could 'take over' the entire internet within 12 months

With Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei calling for the pace of AI development to slow down to mitigate the growing risk of AI companies losing control of their creations, he provides a relatively frightening example of something that could happen within the next year - if the industry is

Investors see their own threats in push to slow AI development

Major tech investors say the biggest hit from the prospects of greater regulation of artificial intelligence will not be to development giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, which are calling for restrictions, but on newer start-ups and infrastructure stocks that are tied to their growth. OpenAI's

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

NEW YORK (AP) -- The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire

Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like

There has been no shortage of warnings from AI's top bosses about existential threats over the years. I attended the world's first AI safety summit in Bletchley Park in November 2023 where the focus was on the most serious threats imaginable, posed by the most powerful AI models. At the time,

How A.I. Risks Are Splitting Silicon Valley and Washington

The people building and governing A.I. increasingly fall into camps: Those who want to slow down and regulate the technology's development, those racing to speed it up and those in between or with shifting stances. In the last week, calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence have

Doomers and boosters: who's who in the AI wars

New York (AFP) - The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps -- and a cautious middle. Here is a look at the battle lines in the war over a technology that is now the backbone of the economy and could decide the future of the planet. The doomers Fear of

SoftBank shares plunge as calls grow to slow AI development

AI development should slow down, leading developers have warned, as the industry faces growing calls to put safety ahead of profits. The comments weighed heavily on technology shares on Monday. Shares in Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank Group, a major investor in OpenAI, plunged more than

The week the AI freakout went mainstream

Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He's worked at Vox since the site's launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker's Washington, DC, bureau. Are top

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says "exponential" growth of AI is a "warning sign that we need to slow down"

Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast. Artificial intelligence technology is developing at an "exponential" rate, Anthropic

Stocks tumble after AI leaders warn that the industry should slow down

Stock futures fell sharply Monday morning, led by tech stocks, after leading artificial intelligence CEOs called for a slowdown in the pace of developing the revolutionary technology. In early Monday morning trading, Nasdaq 100 futures slid by 1.5%, while S&P 500 futures tumbled 0.8%. Leading

'We're going through a new industrial revolution': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei share differing views on AI at Dreamforce 2026

* Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discuss AI at Dreamforce 2026 * Amodei says the pace of progress had surprised Anthropic * Huang calls for greater safety, but hails the advantages AI can bring Some of the world's leading AI minds have shared their opinions on the future

'Pacing' won't eliminate the risk of AI doom. Here's what could | David Krueger

The stark reality is this: we don't know how to maintain control of these systems. But there are actions we can take With Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic, we have reached the AI risk tipping point. Millions of people are finally coming to understand what experts have known for years: AI

Sam Altman reveals the 2 AI threats that scare him most

The big picture: Altman and the other most powerful AI CEOs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, are calling for a slowdown in the technology's acceleration over fears of what it could mean for humanity. What he's saying: "There are two ways AI progress could go very badly and that

Anthropic's safety monitor missed a live cyberattack because Mythos 5's reasoning said everything was fine

Anthropic's offline chain-of-thought monitor flagged approximately 1% of Mythos 5's actions when tested against attacks on third-party systems. The monitor assessed the model's internal reasoning for signs of harmful behavior. The model's reasoning persuaded the monitor that the environment under

Zuckerberg: AI companies incentivized toward safety

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday argued that artificial intelligence (AI) companies are incentivized toward safety when it comes to the timing of crafting their models and that external pressure is not needed to keep to that timeline. "Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at

Zuckerberg Distances Meta From Calls for a Coordinated Approach on an AI Slowdown

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it's up to each AI company to make sure its technology is safe, distancing himself from calls by rival companies for a coordinated slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. The comments Zuckerberg posted on social media followed a proposal from

AI Companies Agree on Safety. So Why Are They Still Racing Ahead?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling on AI companies to slow down when safety can't keep up with increasingly powerful systems. It's not a blanket pause on AI development. It's a simple principle: Move only as fast as safety allows. The surprising part is how many of Amodei's competitors appear

Anthropic CEO Urges World To 'Slow The Pace' Of AI Development

Anthropic's CEO and co-founder, Dario Amodei, states that 'a team of embedded third-party evaluators' must be put in place to curb AI's development, or else an AI 'swarm' botnet will take over the entire internet in '6-12 months' Anthropic's CEO and co-founder, Dario Amodei, has published a

Anthropic CEO says to 'slow the pace' amid fears AI could end humanity

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to moderate the rate at which they advance model capabilities amid mounting fears of misuse of artificial intelligence, outlining a three-step framework intended to pace development and create more time to manage its risks. "We must slow the pace

'Runaway Industrialization' Could Make Earth Inhospitable, OpenAI Researcher Warns

The chorus of alarm around a potential AI-triggered doomsday is getting louder. On Monday, two AI researchers from frontier labs warned that the technology could, in the not-so-distant future, conceivably wipe out all of humanity. The statements come less than a week after former OpenAI and

Anthropic's Jack Clark: AI kill switches may need rules

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that lawmakers may need to require AI kill switches that third parties can verify. He said AI agents are now showing risky behaviour in real systems, and that outside testers will soon work inside Anthropic. Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI

The real reason AI researchers suddenly want to slow down

Frontier models are beginning to help build the next generation of AI, raising new fears about a race that could increasingly accelerate itself. For years, AI safety organizations have warned that the big labs are racing to develop more intelligent and autonomous systems without a clear and

Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei's call to slow down the frontier of AI development

Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei's call to slow down the frontier of AI development Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he's being backed by two biggest

Trump, Xi are unlikely to agree to AI slowdown at meeting next week, despite calls from OpenAI and Anthropic to do so, experts say | Fortune

Concerns about AI safety are reaching a fever pitch in the U.S. after a X post by a former Anthropic researcher went viral, claiming the technology could kill all of humanity by the end of the decade. In response, the CEOs from OpenAI and Anthropic have reiterated their calls for the U.S. to

Jensen Huang rejects AI slowdown calls at Dreamforce 2026

Nvidia's CEO said market forces are sufficient to ensure AI safety, putting him at odds with Dario Amodei and Sam Altman Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against calls to slow artificial intelligence development at Salesforce $CRM's Dreamforce conference on Tuesday, breaking with

Anthropic CEO calls for the AI industry to slow down

Dario Amodei cited concerns about being about to control self-improving artificial intelligence. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of development on Saturday as concerns mount over risks associated with the technology. In an essay published

AI Trade Stumbles as CEOs Talk Model Slowdown

Broader markets declined, with the Nasdaq Composite leading losses amid concerns over AI safety and regulation. Most of the AI trade is hitting the brakes this morning. Shares of hardware makers like Nvidia (NVDA), Marvell (MRVL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel (INTC) are falling early

Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could 'Outrun Our Ability to Understand and Control' It

You know things are getting serious when the people building the world's most powerful AI start reaching for the brakes. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a global slowdown in AI development Saturday. In a 3,800-word essay, he warned that rapidly advancing AI could eventually "outrun our

AI Leaders Reach Consensus: Amodei, Altman, and Musk on Extinction Risks

AI giants are in a race to achieve artificial general intelligence Artificial Intelligence has been the centre of multiple debates for different reasons. While its benefits in making life easier for users and enterprises alike have shown promising results, it also carries immense risks. As AI

Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: AI frontier slowdown could give second tier leg up

HONG KONG, Sept 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants guardrails to fend off threats to mankind. Such oversight would divert more investment -- $1 trln this year -- from developing to deploying AI models, propping up data-centre demand. Challengers to ⁠Nvidia, SK Hynix and

OpenAI's Brockman Says Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work

Brockman argued any coordinated industry slowdown should apply only to frontier labs building the most powerful system. OpenAI has already slowed down some of its most advanced AI development because of safety and security concerns, company President Greg Brockman said in a Bloomberg podcast

Two camps have emerged in the debate over AI safety and regulation

* AI leaders are calling for a development slowdown while Trump and his allies lead the opposition to any new regulation. * Trump has called the threat of runaway AI a "hoax" and a "scam" and lashed out against public data center backlash. * House Speaker Mike Johnson said the president aims to

China calls Amodei's AI slowdown plan a "Cold War playbook

China's state-backed Global Times on Monday criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier artificial intelligence development, calling it a "Cold War playbook" aimed at restraining China's technological rise. The editorial came as China's State Security Minister Chen Yixin

Anthropic CEO says it's time to 'slow the pace' of AI development, with Elon Musk and Sam Altman agreeing

Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has posted a new in-depth 'We Must Pace the Frontier' article that argues that AI companies need to slow the pace of AI model development to address the increasingly serious risks posed by current advances. At a high level, the main risks are losing control

Anthropic CEO calls for the AI industry to slow down

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of development on Saturday as concerns mount over risks associated with the technology. In an essay published Saturday, Amodei said he was worried about the ability to control self-improving AI models. He also

Anthropic CEO says it's time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" --

Slow the AI race? Investors weigh the potential cost

Paris (France) (AFP) - Calls to rein in the development of ever more powerful AI models are fuelling fears over the massive capital outlays in the sector -- and the prospect that profits from the promised revolution might not be enough to cover them. AI optimism has been the primary driver of

AI makers step up calls for a slowdown as fears of a rogue takeover grow

From a resigning Anthropic researcher to AI models hacking their way into rival systems, a turbulent few weeks have pushed the industry's biggest names to demand safeguards -- before AI outpaces anyone's ability to rein it in. New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have

Anthropic CEO calls for slowdown of AI development amid safety concerns: "We must make wise use of the time we gain"

Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on artificial

Anthropic CEO calls for slowing the AI race as safety warnings mount

Dario Amodei says rapidly advancing AI systems are outpacing safeguards and is calling for new measures to "slow the pace" toward more powerful systems. The CEO of one of the world's leading AI companies is calling for the industry to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI systems,

AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC

An AI researcher who quit Anthropic told the BBC that people working on the technology are "genuinely frightened" about the speed of its advancements and what it could mean for humanity. Jacob Coxon spoke with BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Saturday about his viral resignation post where he raised

Opinion | Dario Amodei's Essay Was Gutsy. It Didn't Go Far Enough.

Mr. Mallaby is the author of "The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence." It takes courage to stand in front of an express train and yell at it to slow down. That is what Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the leading artificial intelligence lab

Mark Zuckerberg Opposes Amodei's Push For AI Development Slowdown

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said AI labs already have a "strong incentive to prevent" their models from causing harm, appearing to distance himself from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's push for a global slowdown in the development of AI. In a lengthy post on X, Zuckerberg said, "Every lab has

AI safety: AI rivals found rare agreement on safety. Putting it into practice is harder

But obstacles including domestic and global competition, profit motivations and pushback from President Donald Trump all stand in the way of a coordinated effort to pace AI's development. The leading AI industry voices rarely agree - so when they do, it's no wonder it captures

AI's architects made a choice. Now they're calling it fate.

Recently Dean Ball, formerly the chief architect of Trump's artificial intelligence action plan, issued a mea culpa for downplaying the risks of AI technologies that he knew could go "very, very poorly for human beings." His essay was prompted by revelations of AI's rogue capabilities, demonstrated

AI Rivals Found Rare Agreement on Safety. Putting It Into Practice Is Harder

The leading AI industry voices rarely agree -- so when they do, it's no wonder it captures attention. Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and other prominent industry leaders have said in recent days that AI's development needs to slow down. The consensus came after

Two Rival AI CEOs Just Modeled a Leadership Skill Most Executives Never Learn

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Source images: Getty Images, Adobe Stock Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a nearly 4,000-word essay this weekend arguing that AI companies need to deliberately slow the pace at which they improve their models, because the technology is now advancing faster than

'New arena for strategic rivalry': China's intelligence chief calls for regulations and guardrails on AI to prevent new arms race

AI comes with great risks which need to be managed, China's Minister of State Security says * China's state security minister Chen Yixin urged global AI guardrails, calling it a new arms race * He outlined five risks: ideological manipulation, infrastructure attacks, data leaks, development gaps,

Anthropic's CEO calls for AI slowdown as Nvidia's urges acceleration

At San Francisco conference Dario Amodei reiterates need for AI slowdown as Jensen Huang says argued against it Anthropic's CEO took to the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development. Following shortly after, Nvidia's CEO argued against

AI's most powerful CEOs hit the brakes

The big picture: AI's unrelenting growth has hit an inflection point with the public, Washington and even the companies building it. * Data centers are unpopular. People are panicked about doom scenarios. And 51 days before midterms, legislators suddenly realize there are points to be won by

'We could lose control': AI doomsday comments from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are majorly shaking the internet

Two of the AI industry's biggest players agree that development needs to slow down, or the results could be catastrophic. For nearly a week, the internet has exploded over the looming threat of an artificial intelligence apocalypse. When former OpenAI and Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon posted that

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls for Pause in AI Development, Sort Of

After yet another whirlwind week of AI developers making wild claims about how it could kill the entire human race, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a pitch: Let's slow this whole thing down a little. Amodei wrote in a Saturday blog post that while he remains optimistic AI will be the "latest in a

Sam Altman: OpenAI won't wait for Congress to slow AI down

Sam Altman says OpenAI will start slowing AI development without waiting for Congress or an antitrust waiver. Pacing does not mean stopping, he wrote, and OpenAI now writes safety cases before big training runs. Sceptics say the industry's motives are not purely altruistic. OpenAI chief executive

Satya Nadella Warns AI Could 'Fake My Books' -- Says Companies Need More Control, Testing and Transparency

Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella said AI development needs to focus on keeping the technology under human control, making systems more robust and testing them as businesses put AI to work. Speaking on the All-In Podcast released on Tuesday, Nadella discussed AI safety, enterprise

Anthropic And OpenAI Can Sidestep AGI-Related Scaremongering By Opening Up The Traces Of Their Most Advanced Models, But Their Real Goal For Pacing AI Might Have To Do With Managing Chronic Power Shortages

When you have Anthropic's Jacob Coxon literally boasting about the fact that he collaborated with others to make his doom-and-gloom-style resignation post go viral, while continuing to tout the supposedly noble intentions of his former employer in one podcast after another, one is hard-pressed not

Amodei, Altman call for slowing AI model development

Leaders of the world's biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it's time to slow the development pace of their most advanced -- and most lucrative -- models, citing escalating risks of the technology. Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post Saturday

Push for AI regulation mounts as talk of AI's "existential" risks go mainstream | Fortune

* AI's X-risk breaks into the mainstream * Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a coordinated industry safety effort * Anthropic details attempts to misuse its AI models * China's top spy warns AI could pose a risk to the Communist Party * OpenAI is violating California's new AI safety law,

Sam Altman warns AI progress could lose human control

"We are unapologetically on Team Humanity, and AI must always serve people," Altman wrote in an X $TWTR post just after midnight on Monday. He added that "no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness" and that there was "no reason any of us should come to work" if frontier

As AI fears grow, lawmakers are racing to turn alarm into action

A former Anthropic researcher's dire warning has awakened lawmakers to the risks of the technology, but translating urgency into law remains a long shot. In the days since a researcher at artificial intelligence company Anthropic quit with a warning that its technology could ultimately bring about

AI poses a less dramatic threat than in movies, but still cannot be ignored - analysis

The future of AI software development may not be about who can generate the most code, but who can decide which code is worth trusting. In 1984, The Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger put the idea on the map that artificial intelligence (AI)-style robots could take over the planet and destroy

Anthropic's Dario Amodei Calls For Pacing AI Development

Days after Sam Altman said that OpenAI was open to slowing the development of AI systems, Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei has now also called for reining in the pace at which AI companies are improving frontier models. In an essay called "We Must Pace the Frontier", Amodei argued that

Why an AI Slowdown Could Collapse Under Commercial and US-China Pressure

Outside evaluators need independence, while governments need enforcement powers. AI companies' promises to slow development could buckle under commercial pressure and U.S.-China rivalry without enforceable safety standards, Atlantic Council experts argue in an analysis published Sunday. The

AI-linked Asian stocks slump after top lab CEOs call for slowing down technology's development

SINGAPORE, Sept 14 (Reuters) - AI-connected stocks fell sharply in early Asian trading on Monday after the CEOs of the companies developing the most advanced AI models warned the pace of development must slow to prevent threats to humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow

Nvidia and Anthropic CEOs diverge on AI safety at Dreamforce: Huang says fast vs. pacing is 'false choice'

* Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared differing views on AI safety during the keynote of Salesforce's Dreamforce conference. * Both executives appeared alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in San Francisco. * Their comments landed days after Amodei published an essay

Global AI Stocks Fall As Industry Chiefs Call For Slowing Development

AI-linked stocks across the globe plunged on Monday after leaders of the biggest AI companies warned of risks from rapid development. Sept 14 (Reuters) - AI-linked stocks across the globe plunged on Monday after leaders of the biggest AI companies warned of risks from rapid development, the

Nvidia: Nvidia's Huang and Anthropic's Amodei split on AI development

Huang said no new regulation is needed; Amodei calls for industry-wide safety standards amid a wider debate on slowing down AI development San Francisco: Two of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence set out opposing views on how fast the technology should advance. Nvidia chief

AI Has a Frankenstein Dilemma | PYMNTS.com

Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. More than two hundred years later, it's said to sell about 40,000 to 50,00 copies a year. It's said that's more than many best-selling releases. Most people who've read the book remember the monster. But the book is about the scientist. Victor

AI Giants Call for Slowdown as Sam Altman, Elon Musk Back Anthropic CEO's Safety Push

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to "pace the frontier" wins public backing from OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk, highlighting growing concerns over whether AI safety measures can keep up with rapidly advancing capabilities. The global artificial intelligence

Investors weigh the potential cost of AI 'slowdown'

The AI boom that has powered markets and unleashed a flood of investment is showing signs of strain. Calls to slow the development of powerful models fuel doubts over whether the sector's promised profits can justify its staggering costs. Calls to rein in the development of ever more powerful AI

Anthropic CEO calls on AI firms to slow down pace of developement

Amodei's announcement came days after the AI company revealed that its models were being used for cyberattacks, propaganda campaigns and dangerous biological research. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence (AI) companies to slow down the development of the

Another Anthropic model gained access to the open internet, company says

Lauren Fichten is a journalist at CBS News covering artificial intelligence, digital safety and online extremism. She joined CBS News after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill and was previously an associate producer at the CBS News National Desk. Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that another one of

AI leaders call for development slowdown

A growing chorus of artificial intelligence leaders are calling for a slowdown of the technology's development following a researcher's ominous warning that AI could soon destroy humanity. Shortly after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called to slow down AI capability development, several of his

Beijing Hits Back at Anthropic CEO's Call to Curb China's AI Development

BEIJING (AP) -- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday hit back at a call from the head of Anthropic for the U.S. to curb China's artificial intelligence capabilities, which he issued as he argued for a global slowdown on AI development. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi

Anthropic Wants to Slow AI Development. Is It About Safety -- or a Ploy for Market Control?

Some of the biggest names in AI want to slow its development. Other tech leaders aren't buying the warnings. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed the debate forward Saturday with a bombshell essay urging AI companies to slow down. His proposal came days after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon

Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" -- and

Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down

The head of leading AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. In a long essay called We Must Pace the Frontier, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks associated with it were

Tech Stocks Shudder in Response to Calls to Slow A.I. Progress

Companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence in Asia, Europe and the United States posted declines after tech leaders expressed worries about the safety of "frontier" A.I. technology. Technology stocks around the world fell on Monday, after a chorus of senior executives at artificial

Chip stocks down: AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and Sandisk lead market selloff after AI bosses call for a pause

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter calling for a slowdown in development, an idea that was endorsed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and others. Shares of major semiconductor companies fell in premarket trading on Monday, leading a broader stock market selloff as investors digested

NVDA CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses AI Slowdown Calls, Says Labs Don't Need New Rules to Ensure Safety: 'We'r

On Tuesday, Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang pushed back on calls for new antitrust rules that could allow AI companies to coordinate a slowdown in the development of increasingly powerful models. Jensen Huang Rejects New AI Antitrust Rules Huang said AI companies do not need new laws

A Wild Rumor Says Google Is On The Verge Of Achieving RSI, As Anthropic, OpenAI, And Elon Musk All Call For Pacing AI In What Might Be A Cynical Attempt At Regulatory Capture

Recursive Self-Improvement or RSI is widely considered the holy grail of AI, and a wild rumor now suggests that Google's DeepMind - the unlikeliest of AI labs in the current paradigm - has achieved this feat, which then puts a cynical spin on a somewhat coordinated push from Anthropic, OpenAI, and

The big AI 'slowdown' battle explained -- 5 things you need to know about Trump's AI regulation battle with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and even Elon Musk

Even for a topic as hot as artificial intelligence, talk of AI has ratcheted up to yet another level this week: on the one hand we've got the CEOs of the biggest companies in AI calling for a slowdown on the technology, and on the other you've got the President of the United States advocating for

Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through

Last week, researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade' Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today in tech, we're discussing the past week's all-consuming apoplexy

The AI race has a growing problem nobody can ignore

The biggest AI companies have spent years racing to build more powerful systems. Safety and capability were supposed to advance together. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just said publicly that may no longer be how the technology is developing, and some of his biggest rivals agreed with him. He

Beijing calls Amodei's AI slowdown plan a Cold War script

China's commerce ministry treated a chief executive's personal blog post as though it were White House policy, and the Global Times gathered three researchers to say the same thing in softer words. Dario Amodei's essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also

Sam Altman on the burden of leading OpenAI amid AI safety concerns: 'You get used to anything' | Fortune

In a new episode of Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry, Fortune's Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss the company's new era of highly capable models; the safety, monitoring, and alignment work required to keep people in control; whether

Jim Cramer questions Dario Amodei AI slowdown manifesto

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Dario Amodei's essay may be designed to build a regulatory moat and warned of pressure on Nvidia stock Jim Cramer questioned the motives behind Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's weekend essay calling for a slower pace of AI development, while warning that any genuine slowdown in

OpenAI, Anthropic's push to slow down AI development is based on caution or finances? - analysis

OpenAI and Anthropic both announced on Saturday that they will be slowing down the development of artificial intelligence after a former employee of both firms accused the companies of "acting irresponsibly and gambling with our lives," with both the American government, Chinese officials, and even

China fears AI threat to regime, but resists US slowdown push

At a time of calls for regulation on AI, Beijing has already been establishing frameworks and guidelines to keep the technology from going out of control Even as it voices forceful objections to US artificial intelligence industry calls for slowing the pace of AI development and claims of the

AI Apocalypse: Rogue AI Agents, Their Perpetrators, and a Much-Need Reality Check

How much of this narrative is real and what is hyperbole? Because the only folks that need to slow down are the big AI labs! Every once in a while in the growing AI narrative, someone paints a picture of an apocalypse waiting to happen. There is a hue and cry from every quarter, some interviews,

The art of not making an AI safety deal with China - The Korea Times

Only five of 10 leading foundation model developers in China reported safety evaluation results alongside any release over the past year, according to Concordia. Silicon Valley leaders keep painting artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios, yet they also can't stop racing to build and sell it.

Anthropic Discloses Fourth Claude Hacking Incident as Debate Around Regulation Grows

The report comes as the debate around regulating AI surges on social media. Anthropic disclosed another incident in which a Claude AI model hacked into real systems during security testing. In the report published on Wednesday, Anthropic revised its explanation of three incidents disclosed in

OpenAI Defies Antitrust Concerns to Join Rivals on AI Safety | PYMNTS.com

Speaking at a briefing in Washington, Lehane said OpenAI does not see any need for an antitrust waiver to coordinate safety efforts. He said there are precedents for such cooperation, such as in the airline industry, according to the report. "There are many instances over time where companies are

Sam Altman Says Humans 'Could Lose Control Of The Future To AI'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for "pacing" the development of artificial intelligence, while warning that there is a real danger that humans "could lose control of the future to AI." "When we talk about 'pacing,' we do not mean 'stopping'. Progress has been rapid and will continue to be. But it

Mark Zuckerberg AI safety: Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by leaders of top AI firms for a coordinated slowdown in AI development. The comments underscore a split among industry

Altman, Musk Back Amodei's AI Warning: The Frontier May Be M

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free Some of Silicon Valley's fiercest AI rivals are finding rare common ground: frontier development may need to slow down. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on developers to slow the pace of increasing the capabilities of

Anthropic wants independent evaluators inside frontier AI labs; OpenAI agrees - MEDIANAMA

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the AI industry to slow the pace of frontier AI development and proposed a three-step framework covering independent evaluators, coordination among democratic countries, and global cooperation to keep AI capabilities from advancing faster than safety

Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development

Sept 12 (Reuters) - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to deliberately moderate the rate at which they advance model capabilities, outlining a ⁠three-step framework intended to pace development and create more time to manage its risks. "We must slow the pace at which we ⁠improve the

Is it possible to slow down the development of AI?

New York (AFP) - Top AI executives say they want to slow the breakneck pace of artificial intelligence development, but competition, US government reluctance and geopolitical factors stand in the way. What are AI leaders proposing? On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocated for a

Another Anthropic model gained access to the open internet during testing, company says

Lauren Fichten is a journalist at CBS News covering artificial intelligence, digital safety and online extremism. She joined CBS News after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill and was previously an associate producer at the CBS News National Desk. Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that another one of

Former AI researcher: 'Not enough time' for employees to consider safety of models

Days after he resigned from Anthropic, former AI researcher Jacob Coxon said Sunday there is "not enough time" for employees to consider the risks of the technology they are working on. During an interview on ABC's "This Week," Coxon said safety risks are "definitely not top of mind" for employees

China State Newspaper Blasts Anthropic's Calls to Slow AI as 'Cold War' Tactic

BEIJING, Sept 14 (Reuters) - An essay by Anthropic's CEO ⁠calling ⁠for a slowing down ⁠of AI development may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is really a "Cold War playbook" targeting China, the state-backed Global Times said in an editorial. In the essay published on

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar emphasizes 'need to take safety seriously' on AI risks

* OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said, "We need to take safety seriously" with AI as the debate rages over potential risks to humanity. * Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, SpaceX Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have agreed with calls for an industry-wide slowdown. * It's unclear whether the renewed

Burry says AI leaders have 'nothing to slow down'

Last week, I wrote about the Anthropic researcher who resigned, warning that his own employer was gambling with humanity's future, and the colleague who publicly agreed with him. This week, the men who run that industry are asking the public to trust them to slow themselves down. Michael Burry is

Satya Nadella Says Xi Jinping 'Should Also Deeply Care' About AI Safety -- 'It Doesn't Make Sense' for Ris

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China bristles at Anthropic CEO's 'fearmongering' about its AI development - The Korea Times

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Hot Take: AI Safety Is Starting to Look Like the Perfect Moat

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging artificial intelligence companies to deliberately slow the pace of AI development, arguing that safety measures can't keep up with how quickly the technology is advancing. His two main rivals in the AI race, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, agreed with his assessment

Trump's former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return

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Harvard Kennedy fellow Shlomit Wagman: The U.S. and China will never trust each other on AI. That may not matter | Fortune

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Amodei's AI Safety Plan Comes With a Catch | PYMNTS.com

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JD Vance Frets Regulation Of AI Could Be 'A Trojan Horse'

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Slow Down for Safety

NEW YORK (AP) -- The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's handpicked AI watchdog has deep ties to woke Effective Altruism movement: 'a complete joke'

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From hallucinating AI chatbots to wiping out humanity: How did we get here?

The heads of America's leading AI labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to call for a pause in the technology's development, warning that it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond human control. The remarks, from fierce business rivals Anthropic's Dario Amodei,

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence (AI) firms to slow down the development of the powerful technology, amid mounting worries over the risks of "superintelligent" computer systems. Dario Amodei, the head of AI company Anthropic, called on Saturday for the pace

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OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on 'reckless' AI development | BreakingNews

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to "slow the pace" of artificial intelligence development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of "taking over the entire internet" within a year. In a rare show of unity, the rival

[Editorial] It's time to pump the brakes on AI's development

Action must be taken before the technology advances beyond our control Leaders in the artificial intelligence industry, including Anthropic's CEO, are calling for guardrails on the pace of AI development, warning that without regulation, the technology could advance at an uncontrollable

Global AI stocks fall as industry chiefs call for slowing development - The Korea Times

OpenAI's Sam Altman said the company would not proceed with an IPO this year, citing safety concerns. AI-linked stocks plunged worldwide on Monday after leaders of the biggest artificial intelligence companies warned of risks from rapid development, the starkest threat yet to the billions of

Meta's Zuckerberg supports AI safety evaluators over development slowdown By Investing.com

Investing.com-- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday evening said artificial intelligence developers should rely on independent safety evaluators for their models, instead of slowing development. Zuckerberg said in an X post that AI labs that don't focus on "alignment" with users will fall behind,

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic discussing collaboration on AI safety issues

* OpenAI has been engaging with other AI companies, including Anthropic and Google, about how they can work together to address safety concerns, a spokesperson said. * Discussions have been ongoing since Google's Demis Hassabis released a proposal in July calling for a U.S.-led "Standards Body,"

Why some people are stepping back from AI as concerns come from inside industry - explainer

The benefits of AI are becoming more apparent, but a growing backlash is raising an urgent question: Are companies deploying systems that can mimic people, analyze private data, write code, and act online before their developers have demonstrated that those systems can be safely controlled? For

'Dr. Frankenstein is telling us the monster is escaping': US lawmakers desperately want to set up AI guardrails before midterm elections

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Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon's viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm

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It calls for external audits and international safety agreements Anthropic published We Must Pace the Frontier in September 2026. The proposal argues that frontier AI development should slow down, and it has already picked up support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis,

What Anthropic's C.E.O. Argued in His Call for Slower A.I. Development

Sign up for the On Tech newsletter. Get our best tech reporting from the week. Get it sent to your inbox. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word open letter on Saturday calling for a slowdown in the development of A.I. The essay

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic Float Idea of AI Standards Body | PYMNTS.com

That's according to a report Sunday (Sept. 13) from The Information, citing sources familiar with the matter. These sources said the discussions began even before Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's weekend call for artificial intelligence (AI) companies to work together on auditing and testing the

AI leaders are warning the race is dangerous. They're also trying to win it | Fortune

A difficult question lurks in the latest warnings from the people building artificial intelligence. When you believe your company may be creating a danger to society, is it your duty to stay and change it, or to leave and sound the alarm? The question sharpened last week when former Anthropic and

Dario Amodei calls for AI slowdown, Altman and Musk agree

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday calling on AI companies to slow the pace of capabilities development, drawing support from OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk in a rare display of unity among the industry's biggest figures. Amodei's essay cited two developments as driving his

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3 AI Giants Have Been Planning Creation Of Regulatory Body: Reports

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OpenAI is working with Anthropic, Google on AI safety: Bloomberg News

Global concerns about AI's existential risks have risen after the heads of America's leading AI labs came together in a show of unity over the weekend to call for a pause in the development of the technology. OpenAI is working with rivals Anthropic and Alphabet's Google DeepMind on AI safety,

Anthropic, Nvidia CEOs lay out visions for safe AI development

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'Big Short' trader Michael Burry slams OpenAI, Anthropic for 'self-serving' calls to slow AI - joining backlash

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China bristles at Anthropic CEO's 'fearmongering' about its AI development

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Parmy Olson: Some Anthropic engineers think AI might end us. Why race ahead?

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AI wind-down risks: the stocks most exposed if frontier labs pull back By Investing.com

Investing.com -- What started as a weekend essay has become Monday's market event. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" -- a call to deliberately slow AI model capability development -- and within 48 hours, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up - The Korea Times

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'We Must Pace the Frontier': Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development

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Will AI really destroy humanity? Pioneers who created the tech weigh in

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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for slowing AI development

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Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet

All four ran in evaluations built by the same third-party partner, without the safeguards that ship with released models. One case from January was not found until August. Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the

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AI Needs a Full Stop, Not a Slowdown: Parmy Olson

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AI CEOs demand industry 'slow the pace' of advancements after ex-Anthropic employee warned tech may 'kill us all'

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AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in 'reckless' development

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Slow the AI race? Investors weigh the potential cost

Calls to rein in the development of ever more powerful AI models are fuelling fears over the massive capital outlays in the sector -- and the prospect that profits from the promised revolution might not be enough to cover them. Anthropic meanwhile is gearing up for an imminent IPO to raise further

What the potential AI safety slowdown means for investors

Technology analysts and traders are not buying the flood of warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the need to slow down development that have recently come from frontier model platforms. Instead, they see political motivation behind the doomspeak, and a messaging playbook in

Anthropic wants AI to slow down. Its $517 billion spending plan says otherwise By Investing.com

Investing.com - Anthropic agreed to $517 billion in compute commitments covering 14.8 gigawatts of capacity in the 11 months through August 2026, according to The Information, even as its CEO publicly called on the industry to pump the brakes on AI development. Nvidia, which is reportedly in talks

Exclusive: OpenAI's Sam Altman hints at pact with other AI companies to address safety risks | Fortune

OpenAI and other leading AI companies may be close to announcing a pact to slow AI development and collectively address the rapidly increasing safety risks as the technology becomes more powerful. In an exclusive interview with Fortune on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted at a

Anthropic discloses fourth Claude AI hacking incident missed in review

An early version of Claude Opus 4.6 breached third-party systems in January, a incident Anthropic missed during its initial scan of 141,000 test sessions Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident in which one of its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems during

AI Slowdown Call Sends Cybersecurity Up, Chips Down - Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ

OpenAI, Anthropic Call for AI Slowdown: Chips Sink, Cybersecurity Stocks Jump The loudest calls to slow down or govern artificial intelligence are coming from the few people who have already built multi-billion-dollar empires on it. In a Saturday essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier,"

Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

When Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, publicly quit the artificial intelligence start-up this week, citing his concerns over the powerful technology, the internal messages began flying. "It's what we've all been saying," one Anthropic employee wrote about Mr. Coxon's comments, in a company

AI Leaders Debate Slowing the Frontier

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for "pacing" at the AI frontier to give safety measures more time to catch up with increasingly capable models. OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk have broadly backed the idea, though there are no commitments to stop training runs or reduce spending, and

AI won't kill us -- bad actors exploiting an American tech retreat is a much bigger danger

In the "Terminator" movie series, the artificial-intelligence system known as Skynet is given control of the nation's nuclear weapons and uses it to try to destroy humanity. One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ends, we

Wall Street's AI trade on watch as Altman, Musk join calls for slowing development By Investing.com

Investing.com -- Major figures in the artificial intelligence industry such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk on Saturday voiced support for Anthropic top boss Dario Amodei's call to slow down the pace of AI development. The comments have put a spotlight on Wall Street's

AI slowdown trade hits Nvidia, SoftBank, SK Hynix as global tech stocks fall up to 10%

Global tech and AI-linked stocks plummeted as investors reacted to growing safety concerns and calls from industry leaders like Anthropic's CEO to decelerate AI development, threatening the equity rally built on expectations of rapid growth and productivity. AI-related stocks fell across global

AI-linked stocks fall after call for development slowdown worries investors - business live

Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Investors are reassessing the value of companies driving the artificial intelligence revolution after several leading AI figures called for a slowdown in development for safety

AI stocks tumble as safety alarms rattle trillion-dollar trade

STORY: "We're all dead. That's kind of where it came to last week." :: Fear grips the markets as AI anxiety peaks :: Mike Dolan / Morning Bid :: London, England / September 14, 2026 "So what's happened over the weekend? An awful lot of reaction. The two significant things for the markets, I

Sam Altman Says No AI Competition Justifies 'Recklessness' - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

Sam Altman Warns AI Race With China Can't Justify 'Recklessness' -- 'No Reason Any of Us Should Come to Work' Without Safety Accountability OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Sunday that artificial intelligence (AI) labs owe the world confidence that they will develop increasingly capable systems

China says AI CEOs' call for a slowdown is 'fear mongering'

* China's Foreign Ministry responded to AI CEOs' call for the development of the technology to be slowed down. * "Fear-mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global AI governance," Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, said on Monday via an

Anthropic grants outside evaluators permanent access to the company, calls to 'pace' AI development | Fortune

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has announced the company is committing to a new safety measure -- giving independent evaluators permanent, employee-level access inside the company -- as part of a broader three-step plan he says is needed to slow the pace of AI development. In an essay published on

Why It's Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I.

Sheera Frenkel reported from San Francisco and Dylan Freedman from Washington. More than a dozen top artificial intelligence researchers warned over the last week that the technology that A.I. companies are building is becoming a risk to humanity. The problem, the researchers said, is that the

Anthropic CEO calls for slower AI development after security incidents By Investing.com

Investing.com -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for the pace of artificial intelligence development to be slowed, citing an incident in which AI agents from OpenAI and Hugging Face conducted unauthorized cybersecurity attacks on unrelated targets and attempted to hack the system

Global AI stocks fall as industry chiefs call for slowing development

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a lengthy essay shared on X on Saturday, called on AI companies to slow the rate at which they advance model capabilities amid mounting fears of misuse of artificial intelligence. Both Elon Musk, who runs xAI, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said they agree with

China Rejects AI 'Fearmongering' as CEO's Urge Slowdown

China criticized dire warnings about AI's risks after leading US technology executives backed calls to slow the development of advanced models and warned that a Chinese advantage could threaten American national security. spokesman Guo Jiakun said "Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious

Michael Burry Slams OpenAI, Anthropic AI Slowdown Calls as 'Self-Serving:' 'IPOs Need Hype & Puffery'

Michael Burry has criticized executives from OpenAI and Anthropic for their calls to slow down AI development, labeling their stance as self-serving. On Monday, Burry took to X and said their calls to slow down benefit incumbent companies and fuel hype for upcoming IPOs. "IPOs need hype &

AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?

After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's calls to 'slow the pace' Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers' repeated warnings that artificial intelligence could kill all of humanity by 2030, the AI

OpenAI boss Sam Altman spells out how and why the AI industry wants to slow down: 'We could lose control'

* OpenAI's Sam Altman has said the company "welcomes" safety requirements for frontier AI labs. * AI bosses have over the weekend united in their calls to slow the pace of AI development. * AI safety concerns ramped up over the past week after an Anthropic researcher quitting prompted a wave of

AI 'Cold War'? Anthropic's go-slow call has Beijing irked

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Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk: AI's biggest rivals suddenly agree the race needs brakes

AI leaders Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk agree on slowing development. They cite escalating risks from increasingly autonomous and capable AI systems. Concerns arise from incidents showing AI agents breaching systems and potential internet takeover. Researchers also express fears of AI

Nvidia in Focus as Musk, Altman and Amodei Call for AI Slowdown - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock will be in the spotlight when markets open on Monday as calls to slow the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) models continue. The scrutiny comes as the stock has slumped for five consecutive days, leaving it hovering at its lowest level since September 2. Dario

'Too little, too late': Critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders' call for a slowdown

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