AI leaders call for development slowdown
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Leading figures in artificial intelligence, including CEOs from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, are urging a slowdown in AI development following warnings about potential existential risks from advanced AI capabilities. This call reflects growing concerns about the rapid pace of AI progress.
A growing chorus of artificial intelligence leaders are calling for a slowdown of the technology’s development following a researcher’s ominous warning that AI could soon destroy humanity. Shortly after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called to slow down AI capability development, several of his competitors, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk, followed…