Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
This would have to be done in a co-ordinated manner "without sacrificing commercial advantage or the United States' lead in AI". Any slowdown would have to be limited, he said, to avoid allowing China to pull ahead.He urged the US government to take measures so that US companies' AI chips could not be sold to China - or the technology shared with authoritarian countries.
- ▪This would have to be done in a co-ordinated manner "without sacrificing commercial advantage or the United States' lead in AI".
- ▪Any slowdown would have to be limited, he said, to avoid allowing China to pull ahead.He urged the US government to take measures so that US companies' AI chips could not be sold to China - or the technology shared with authoritarian countr
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- ▪ Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI development - Axios — Google News
- ▪ Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down — Bbc
- ▪ Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown — NYT — Home
- ▪ ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown — The Guardian — World
- ▪ Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
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Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow downImage source, ReutersImage caption, There was no alternative to developing AI, Anthropic boss Dario Amodei saidByPaulin KolaPublished12 September 2026, 16:37 BSTUpdated 6 minutes agoThe head of leading AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored.In an essay on Saturday, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks associated with it were "serious" and companies and governments must be given time to address them.He proposed a three-point plan that includes independent monitoring of AI models as they are developed, industry-wide regulation and global regulation.There have been growing concerns recently about the…
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