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Photograph: Dado Ruvić/ReutersAnalysis‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdownRobert Booth UK technology editorFrom the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI – humanity cannot outsource its survival The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash.
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The 27-year-old's former boss, Anthropic head Dario Amodei, recently called for AI development to slow down – though some have questioned the motivations behind this. Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow downPublished2 days agoThe hardest question to answer, according to Coxon, was what an AI apocalypse would look like. Image source, ReutersImage caption, There was no alternative to developing AI, Anthropic boss Dario Amodei saidByPaulin Kola and Lily Jamali, North America technology correspondent, Reporting fromin San FranciscoPublished12 September 2026The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored.
By Wednesday, cutting-edge AI started to look a lot less appealing when the resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
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And then this weekend, another sharp turn in the form of a three-point plan from the Anthropic boss, Dario Amodei, to “pace the frontier”. In signs that a coordinated slowdown might not be just talk, some of Amodei’s precautionary ideas quickly attracted backing from his rivals – Sam Altman at OpenAI and Elon Musk at SpaceX. Perhaps there were reasons to be hopeful after a bumpy week: at least the AI companies were talking about a slowdown before anyone got badly hurt.
In the absence of any government-level independent regulator, this is a start. Amodei proposed a slowdown to free up time to make advances in systems to keep the AIs aligned to human interests. “We don’t just set a slower rate of progress for capabilities and then hope that provides enough time to get the safety right,” he said. Starting today, macOS 27 Golden Gate is available for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 2020 versions with Apple Silicon or later, iMac with Apple Silicon (2021 or later), Mac Mini (2020 or later), Mac Studio (2022 or later), Mac Pro (2023 or later), and MacBook Neo.
"I believe that if we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future," he said.
What has been reported
The bosses of two rival AI firms, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI, have both said they agree with Amodei's proposal for industry-wide deceleration and regulation, as well as independent monitoring of AI model development. Coxon – who worked at OpenAI before joining Anthropic – welcomed the suggestion of a slowdown but said it would need to be co-ordinated with China to avoid "a race at an international scale". Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon ValleyPublished2 days agoHowever, some industry figures have suggested comments are overstated or may be designed to generate hype.
"After Amodei's essay was published, however, Delangue offered to help be a part of the potential solutions the Anthropic boss proposed. Jensen Huang, boss on AI chip maker Nvdia, also discussed Coxon's comments at a conference hosted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs last week, multiple people in the group told the BBC. Musk, meanwhile, who founded Grok producer xAI, said the Anthropic boss was "right". OpenAI has said it was slowing down training of certain advanced AI models and tools as a result.
The Anthropic CEO went on to address the impact that a slowdown would have on the industry and competition with leading developers worldwide, particularly China.
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"I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong," Amodei said. Any slowdown would have to be limited, he said, to avoid allowing China to pull ahead. His former employee, Jacob Coxon, told the BBC, however, that the initiative to slow down must go beyond the US – "there'll need to be some sort of co-ordinated slowdown with China if we're going to avoid a race at an international scale".
Notions of slowing down or even pausing AI development have long been met with cynicism in certain corners of Silicon Valley, with critics accusing leading AI developers of hyping their technology as a marketing ploy. Image source, Molly HaylettImage caption, Molly and Taylor met in their 20s and how they organise money as a couple has changed over timeByYasmin RufoBusiness reporter Published11 September 2026When Molly and Taylor Haylett started their family, they hadn't really planned for what it would mean financially.
She adds that conversations about money should not stop once parental leave begins and when the baby arrives she advises couples should:We split money equally even when one of us earned a lot morePublished24 JulyI wouldn't marry him until he paid off his debt, now I'm in charge of our moneyPublished17 JulyGet our flagship newsletter with all the headlines you need to start the day. Skip to main contentSkip to navigation The easiest way not to build super-intelligence is for Anthropic to agree not to build it, said David Sacks, co-chair of Trump’s council of advisers on science and technology.
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