Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO's call to slow down the global AI race

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"We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," Amodei wrote. "Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain." Hours later, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed the idea and said his company would adopt one of Amodei's proposed safeguards. "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier," Altman wrote on X, saying the issue had been a major topic of discussion at OpenAI in recent weeks.

How it works

• Amodei's call, laid out in a nearly 4,000-word essay, comes after researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google publicly raised concerns about the pace of AI development and the competitive pressures that...
• Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said in essay published Saturday that AI companies should deliberately "slow the pace" at which they improve their models, arguing that AI...
• 18 post on X, he said OpenAI had paused some advanced AI training to ensure it could meet its standards as capabilities improved.
• Amodei pointed to two developments that he said had changed his thinking: the increasi...

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Altman has previously called for slowing AI development.