Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO’s call to slow down the global AI race
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The CEOs of two of the world’s leading AI companies are publicly agreeing that the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems needs to be slowed, continuing this week’s cascade of warnings from researchers working on the technology.
Key facts
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said in essay published Saturday that AI companies should deliberately “slow the pace” at which they improve their models, arguing
Hours later, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed the idea and said his company would adopt one of Amodei’s proposed safeguards
Amodei’s call, laid out in a nearly 4,000-word essay, comes after researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google publicly raised concerns about the pace of AI development and the competitive pressures
Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic safety researcher who resigned this week, told colleagues in a message obtained by NBC News that he believed the industry’s approach to developing superintelligent AI amounted to a “gamble with their lives
Summary
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said in essay published Saturday that AI companies should deliberately “slow the pace” at which they improve their models, arguing that AI advances are moving faster than researchers’ ability to understand and control them. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote. Hours later, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed the idea and said his company would adopt one of Amodei’s proposed safeguards. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Altman wrote on X, saying the issue had been a major topic of discussion at OpenAI in recent weeks.