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AIQuiet 13d · day 16

AI leaders call for development slowdown amid extinction risk warnings

Anthropic's Amodei, OpenAI's Altman, and others back "pacing" AI progress as existential threat concerns dominate the conversation.

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What to know

  • Major AI company leaders, including rival CEOs Amodei and Altman, have united behind a "pace the frontier" initiative calling for slower AI development and new safety standards.
  • The consensus draws unusually broad support from competitors and critics alike, with Elon Musk backing Amodei despite personal animosity with Altman.
  • Commentators including historian Niall Ferguson question whether the rapid, near-universal agreement signals rational risk management or the opposite—a warning sign of panic-driven decision-making.

“It's not just the next 9/11, enabled by AI, that is coming. It's the next global financial crisis. It's the next pandemic. It might even be the next world war.”

Niall Ferguson, Historian · The Free Press ↗ · Sep 13

Dario AmodeiDario Amodei Anthropic CEOSam AltmanSam Altman OpenAI CEOElon MuskElon Musk Tech entrepreneurDemis HassabisDemis Hassabis DeepMind leaderNiall Ferguson Historian and commentator

AI leaders call for development slowdown amid extinction risk warnings
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    Ferguson questions whether rapid AI risk consensus signals irrationality

    Historian Niall Ferguson argues that the moment widespread agreement emerges on an issue, rational decision-making probability approaches zero, and warns of cascading AI-enabled crises including financial collapse and pandemics.

    1. 1 outlet Niall Ferguson: AIpocalypse Now

      first by The Free Press, 14d ago

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    Altman delays OpenAI IPO, Musk backs Amodei, Hassabis joins consensus

    Sam Altman postpones OpenAI's planned IPO to next year in support of the pause. Elon Musk, despite rivalry with Altman, endorses Amodei's position. Demis Hassabis of DeepMind joins the agreement.

    “Dario is right.”
    — Elon Musk
  3. background

    Amodei calls for slowing AI capability improvements — Dario Amodei of Anthropic announces a "pace the frontier" initiative, calling for slowing AI development and establishing third-party evaluators and safety standards across frontier AI companies.

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    CNN reports ex-Anthropic insider warns of AI extinction risk by 2030

    A headline stating "Ex-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030" circulates and draws widespread attention to existential AI risk scenarios.