AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

Slow down, you move too fast…

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

You fools think mere regulations can stop my sprint to superintelligence? Credit: Getty Images

For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they’re in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing artificial general intelligence) at the finish line. This weekend, the industry as a whole rapidly started turning away from that posture, urging coordination on slowing down the development of frontier AI that they say could soon be too dangerous and unknowable to control.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei was at the forefront of this change in tone, arguing in a nearly 4,000-word essaythis weekend that “we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models” to avoid “a race to the bottom, spurred...

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