What smart people are saying about the AI apocalypse and calls to slow everything down
Leaders of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have reached a consensus on the need for third-party safety monitoring and a potential slowdown in frontier AI development. This shift follows growing concerns regarding the existential risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence.
Why it matters
The alignment of industry giants on safety protocols marks a significant inflection point in the governance of AI, potentially influencing future global regulations and development speeds.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei agreed this week to put third-party safety monitors in their companies. Getty Images AI leaders are rallying around calls to slow frontier AI development over mounting safety fears. Dario Amodei warned that AI swarms could take over the internet within a year. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis backed Amodei's push for greater safeguards. It took the possibility of species annihilation , but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus. After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon's warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders of the most advanced AI labs came to a tentative agreement — largely via posts on X — that some sort of slowdown is necessary to save humanity.
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