Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a deliberate slowdown in the development of frontier AI models, citing concerns that capabilities are outpacing safety research. OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk have publicly supported this stance, signaling a rare industry consensus on the risks of rapid, recursive self-improvement in AI systems.
Why it matters
This alignment among the industry's most competitive leaders suggests a potential shift toward self-regulation and coordinated safety standards to mitigate existential risks posed by advanced AI.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Claude’s developer, Anthropic, on Saturday called for companies to deliberately pace advances in frontier AI, arguing that model capabilities were improving faster than researchers’ ability to understand and control them.
In an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” , Amodei said advances since this summer had convinced him that AI safety work was no longer keeping pace with rapidly improving capabilities.
“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote.
However, he didn’t call for an outright halt, arguing for slowing down the pace of the development. “Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless.”
Two other prominent leaders of rival giant AI and tech companies quickly backed the idea.
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