Anthropic CEO Calls for Industry-Wide AI Slowdown as Rivals Altman and Musk Join the Plea

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has thrown down the gauntlet, publishing a 3,000-word essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" that calls on the entire AI industry to deliberately slow the development of frontier models. The unprecedented move sees the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI — Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk — aligning on the need for caution, citing the risk of losing control of AI systems, misuse for cyberattacks, and severe economic disruption. Altman quickly...