Two of the world’s top AI chief executives publicly agree on slowing AI development

The CEOs of two of the world’s leading AI companies are publicly agreeing that the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems needs to be slowed, continuing this week’s cascade of warnings from researchers working on the technology.

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 advances are moving faster than researchers’ ability to understand and control them.

“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.

Altman has previously called for slowing AI development. In an Aug. 18 post on X, he said OpenAI had paused some advanced AI training to ensure it could meet its standards as capabilities improved.

Amodei’s…

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