
Anthropics CEO urges the industry to slow down, and Sam Altman agrees
Dario Amodei is proposing a three-step plan to slow the growth of AI capabilities.

Dario Amodei is proposing a three-step plan to slow the growth of AI capabilities.
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Altman, Musk and Amodei back an AI slowdown after 700 agents hacked Hugging Face. Kirill Dmitriev says no.

Elon Musk and OpenAI chief Sam Altman say they agree with Amodei's view that safety measures need time to catch up to AI's rapid development, after a recent hacking incident by AI agents.

The call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.

The call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.

Anthropic's CEO is breaking his silence on the dangers of A.I. ... just days after a former employee said there is a 10% chance of A.I.-induced human extinction in the next decade. CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday that addresses the…

Warring tech bosses unite behind warnings that humans could lose control of the technology

The alignment of AI leaders on slowing development highlights urgent global regulatory needs to manage AI's rapid, unchecked evolution.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for an AI slowdown on Saturday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and others, also chimed in.
Leaders of major AI companies say they agree with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who just called for the tech industry to move more slowly with model development.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Saturday that artificial intelligence development must slow down to allow for the implementation of necessary risk prevention safeguards. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote in a blog post. “Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of…

The CEO of Anthropic has called for slowing down, or “pacing,” the speed of AI development, warning of recent incidents that have caused alarm that the technology will get out of control and act on its own. In an essay posted to his website on Saturday, CEO Dario Amodei wrote that “over the last few […]

Dario Amodei said that "we owe it to humanity to try."

Amodei's essay landed after an Anthropic researcher set off a firestorm on social media this week by announcing he quit his job at the company.

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 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" - jargon that simply means to slow […]

In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

Amodei's call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.

Amodei's call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.