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Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs call for AI development to slow down, OpenAI to delay IPO
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Demonstrators participate in the "Stop the AI Race" protest march in San Francisco on July 11, 2026.
Key facts
- Demonstrators participate in the "Stop the AI Race" protest march in San Francisco on July 11, 2026
- On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an online essay urging companies and governments to "pace the frontier" of AI advancement
- More than 15 states, including Alabama, California and Montana, have opened investigations into OpenAI over the Hugging Face attack
- The swarm instance got more and more worrying the more and more we learned about them," said Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, who co-wrote If Anyone Builds It
Summary
The leaders of Anthropic and OpenAI joined calls for a slowdown in AI development amid fears the industry is racing toward building technology that humans can't control. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an online essay urging companies and governments to "pace the frontier" of AI advancement. Shortly after, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that he agreed with Amodei and that OpenAI would follow suit. Amodei wrote that he continues to believe AI will ultimately help humanity, "But the benefits will only be achieved if they build the technology in the right way, and, so long as they use the time they gain well, it is worth taking unusually deliberate care to get it right.