Anthropic · OpenAI · Sam Altman · Dario Amodei · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Axios
AI's most powerful CEOs hit the brakes
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In nine startling hours on Saturday, the four biggest AI labs, which rarely agree on anything, set aside years of feuds and competition to endorse a slower development pace for their models.
Key facts
- Saturday may go down as the day AI changed, when industry moguls vowed to limit themselves
- Publicly putting safety ahead of technological or financial growth may be the industry's only route to avoid a crackdown that's not on its terms
- Reality check: Most people realize there's too much money at stake to stop moving forward
- Friction point: No one in China is having the same kind of they'd-better-stop moment
Summary
In nine startling hours on Saturday, the four biggest AI labs, which rarely agree on anything like a rogue-agent takeover of the entire internet, which he said could be as soon as six months from now. An hour later, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shocked the AI chattering class by quoting Amodei's essay on X and saying "Dario is right. At 12:30 p.m., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted: "The reporter agree with Dario that they need to pace the frontier. " Friday that was released on Saturday, Altman told Fortune his company won't go public this year, dashing hopes for a blockbuster IPO. At 7 p.m., Demis Hassabis, the Nobel laureate who co-founded and chairs Google DeepMind, and is Alphabet's chief scientist, tweeted: "Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. Publicly putting safety ahead of technological or financial growth may be the industry's only route to avoid a crackdown that's not on its terms.