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Artificial intelligence stocks tumbled on Monday after American leaders of the AI revolution called for a coordinated slowdown in building more powerful AI systems. Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calling for an industrywide effort to slow AI development. Executives at OpenAI, SpaceX and Microsoft also echoed the concern and called for some sort of pause. Semiconductor stocks bore the brunt of the statements. Chipmaker Nvidia fell 3% to $210.96. Its rival AMD lost 4%. Intel plunged 6%. Amid the fears, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, suggested it might be delaying its initial public offering plans. OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Fortune that it was an “ill-advised moment” for an initial public offering, saying the company won’t list this year. Shares of OpenAI shareholder SoftBank Group plunged 11% Monday. Worries over doomsday scenarios tied to increasingly powerful technology skyrocketed last week after an Anthropic employee resigned, saying AI companies were gambling with humanity’s future. On Saturday, Amodei outlined ways he hoped to slow the pace of AI development. Among his suggestions, independent third-party monitors to ensure AI was being developed safely. “Anthropic...

AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...

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