AI's Pace Debate Explodes: Anthropic's Slowdown Call Sparks Industry Unity and Geopolitical Firefight

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped a 3,800-word essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" on Saturday, calling on the entire AI industry to deliberately slow its race to build ever-more-powerful systems. In a rare show of unity, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk quickly endorsed the call, with Musk posting "Dario is right." Amodei cited two alarming developments driving his position: the accelerating ability of AI systems to recursively self-improve, and a July...