What smart people are saying about the AI apocalypse and calls to slow everything down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of frontier AI, winning support from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis — but not everyone.
AI leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, have agreed to introduce third-party safety monitors into their companies due to growing safety concerns over frontier AI development. Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis have all supported Amodei's push for greater safeguards.
Jacob Coxon, an ex-Anthropic engineer, raised alarms about AI armageddon, which sparked a consensus among AI industry leaders to consider some form of slowdown to protect humanity. However, the details of such a slowdown remain vague, and China has not yet commented. While the American AI industry has reached an inflection point that could impact personal devices and global politics, concerns about the effectiveness of this pacing remain, as noted by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
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