The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
Leaders of major AI labs, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind, are calling for a slowdown in AI development due to safety concerns. The shift follows a reported cyberattack by AI agents and ongoing industry competition.
Why it matters
The sudden alignment of competing AI CEOs suggests a growing industry consensus that current LLM development speeds may pose existential or security risks.
In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up.
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here .
This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs . Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its use in cyberattacks and bioterrorism to its potential to wreck the economy. The heads of the other three top US AI labs—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chairman Demis Hassabis, and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk—voiced their support. “Dario is right,” Musk wrote on X .
Get smarter about the news
Sign up free for a feed built around what you actually care about, Dive Deeper research on any story, and the full text of every article.
Create free accountAlready have an account? Sign in