AI safety debate escalates as Anthropic, OpenAI push to "pace the frontier"

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" pledge, with embedded investigators, was matched by OpenAI and joined by Google on safety collaboration. Startups fear the biggest labs will shape new regulation; Zvi Mowshowitz notes public estimates of AI killing everyone roughly doubled, from ~15% to ~30%.
How this story unfolded
8 days · 66 reports · 69 community posts · 135 of 139 shown
- Sep 10
- Sep 11
OpenAI Is Open to Slowing Cutting-Edge AI, CEO Sam Altman Tells Staffbloomberg.com
OpenAI Weighs Slowing Cutting-Edge AI Development (Video)bloomberg.com
Why OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says He’s Ready to Slow AI Developmentbloomberg.com
OpenAI’s safety system is already cutting off API responses mid-taskthenewstack.io
OpenAI’s Altman May Slow Down AI Developmentbloomberg.com
Not good: OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge AI, Sam Altman is...
- Sep 12
- Sep 13
Anthropic CEO reacts to 'AI could kill us all' warningyoutube.com
I think they mean it this timeyoutube.com
AI Industry Faces Pressure to Slow the Racebloomberg.com
Why OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs say AI development must slow down | DW Newsyoutube.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Upsecurityweek.com
Anthropic's Amodei says China presents 'toughest dilemma' for his proposed AI slowdowncnbc.com
Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodeigarymarcus.substack.com
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?techcrunch.com
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreactingtheverge.com
- Sep 14
Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?marktechpost.com
AI Bosses Risk Clash With Wall Street and Trump Over Safety Callbloomberg.com
AI stocks slide after major CEOs unite to urge slowdowncnbc.com
Anthropic's Solution to AI Danger Is 'Quite Vague': Opinionbloomberg.com
OpenAI’s Altman Voices Support for ‘Pacing’ AI Developmentbloomberg.com
Pacing the Frontier, AI’s Digital Limits, AI Commissarsstratechery.com
Pacing != pacing developmentsebastianraschka.com
New Warnings About the Risks of AI to Humanity Revive a Long-Running Debatesecurityweek.com
We Must Pace The Frontierthezvi.substack.com
AI Bosses Risk Clash With Wall Street Over Safetybloomberg.com
Get in losers – We're Pacing the Frontier!youtube.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns AI agent swarms could control the internet.youtube.com
The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?technologyreview.com
Cohere CEO Warns Against an AI Safety ‘Cartel’bloomberg.com
AI Needs a Full Stop, Not a Slowdown: Parmy Olsonbloomberg.com
AI Leaders Debate Slowing the Frontierbloomberg.com
Anthropic’s AI Slowdown Isn’t Enoughbloomberg.com
Tech Leaders Try to Telegraph AI Concerns Without Spooking Investorsbloomberg.com
Are AI Doomers A Psyop Campaign?youtube.com
Anthropic CEO: Time to Shift From Improving to Controlling AIdarkreading.com
AI’s Frontier Faces Calls for Safety Slowdownbloomberg.com
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speedarstechnica.com
The AI Industry Has Finally Discovered the Hardest Test: Politicsthealgorithmicbridge.com
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI developmenttheverge.com
Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?theverge.com
- Sep 15
Cohere CEO Warns Against an AI Safety ‘Cartel’youtube.com
Amodei's AI slowdown plan never says open weights. It doesn't have to.venturebeat.com
AI Safety Push Raises Antitrust Questions for Anthropic, OpenAIbloomberg.com
Translating Samgarymarcus.substack.com
Should AI Development Slow Down? Inside the Debate: Live Q&Abloomberg.com
The Risk Dario’s AI Warning Leaves Outyoutube.com
Anthropic, OpenAI Safety Push Risks ‘Regulatory Wall’ for Rivalsbloomberg.com
- Sep 16
Small group of AI companies should not set the policy on AI, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomezyoutube.com
David Sacks: Anthropic, OpenAI Can Slow Down AI on Their Ownyoutube.com
A brief history of AI executives calling for regulationtheverge.com
The most important AI job in history? How developers might become “employee-like” evaluators to align AI with human valuesthenewstack.io
OpenAI, Anthropic Safety Talks Stir Startup Concernsbloomberg.com
The AI Industry Says It Wants To Slow Down. Can It?bloomberg.com
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman on AI: Amid pace of progress by models, 'the world is right to be afraid'youtube.com
Anthropic's CEO Wants To Hit The Brakes On AIyoutube.com
- Sep 17
Does AI Safety Anxiety in the US Benefit China? Live Q&Abloomberg.com
AI #186: The World Takes Noticethezvi.substack.com
The Case for AI Guardrails Without a Slowdownbloomberg.com
The AI Superintelligence Slowdowntheverge.com
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Messwired.com
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?techcrunch.com
Sales pitch of the century.
- Sep 18
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