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Even AI's Biggest Players Think Things Are Moving Too Fast
For years, the race to build more powerful artificial intelligence has largely been about one thing: moving faster. Now, some of the industry’s biggest names are arguing it may be time to rethink that approach. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling on the world’s leading AI companies to ease the pace at which they develop their most powerful models, warning that the technology is advancing faster than safeguards are keeping up. And his message is quickly gaining some high-profile support: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk have both backed Amodei’s push for greater caution. Here’s a closer look at what Amodei is proposing — and why his call for caution is getting so much attention. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay In a 3,800-word essay published on his website on Sept. 12, Amodei called on the world’s leading AI companies to reduce the speed at which they develop increasingly powerful models, arguing that safety measures are struggling to keep up with the technology’s rapid advances. “Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk...