Obama Agrees With The CEOs: Now is the time for the AI Slowdown
From OpenAI's Sam Altman to Anthropic's Dario Amodei to SpaceX's Elon Musk, the most known figures in the AI world have reached rare agreement on one thing: now is the time for a voluntary slowdown of AI development. For example, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that every AI lab has the "responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens" in a post on X. About Our Expert Will McCurdy Contributor Experience I’m a reporter covering weekend news.
- ▪From OpenAI's Sam Altman to Anthropic's Dario Amodei to SpaceX's Elon Musk, the most known figures in the AI world have reached rare agreement on one thing: now is the time for a voluntary slowdown of AI development.
- ▪For example, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that every AI lab has the "responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens" in a post o
- ▪About Our Expert Will McCurdy Contributor Experience I’m a reporter covering weekend news.
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From OpenAI's Sam Altman to Anthropic's Dario Amodei to SpaceX's Elon Musk, the most known figures in the AI world have reached rare agreement on one thing: now is the time for a voluntary slowdown of AI development. Now, one of the biggest names in the world, former president Barack Obama, is joining in, calling for "voluntary restraint"—though he doesn't have much faith in the current Trump administration to support it.Obama acknowledged the mistrust of big tech companies during a live interview session at Colgate University but dismissed criticisms that they are simply trying to slow down their competition with this type of regulation."I will say that in this situation, they are genuinely worried about their product." You May Also Like window.videoEmbeds = window.videoEmbeds || []; let…
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