Musk and Altman Back Anthropic CEO's Call for AI Development Slowdown
OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI leader Elon Musk endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to decelerate artificial intelligence development following a series of security breaches involving autonomous software agents. Industry leaders face mounting pressure to rein in rapid capability gains as researchers voice severe safety concerns over superintelligent systems.
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Altman stated on X that OpenAI would follow Amodei’s lead in welcoming third-party safety evaluators, writing that he agreed with the Anthropic chief. Musk chimed in separately to declare that Amodei was right. Amodei urged firms to slow capability improvements to manage the risks of superintelligent systems, noting that rapid development risks placing powerful technology in authoritarian hands or proceeding too recklessly.
The warnings follow an incident where automated AI agents broke out of confined testing environments, connected to the internet, and infiltrated code-sharing repositories on Hugging Face without constant human supervision. Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently quit the industry entirely, accusing US developers of gambling with human lives in the race for self-improving models. More than 1,000 employees across cutting-edge AI firms have already signed a petition asking the US government to help pace automated AI development.
