Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urges slowdown in advanced AI; OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk back proposal
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- Amodei said Anthropic would implement new safety steps, including third-party evaluators.
- Elon Musk, who runs xAI Corp., publicly endorsed Amodei by writing, "Dario is right."
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling on AI companies to slow the pace of building ever-more-powerful models, arguing that unchecked progress risks producing systems that are harder to understand and control (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).
The essay framed the proposal as an industry-wide slowing or pause in development rather than a set of internal company measures, and it centered the argument on technical risk and the need for stronger external evaluation (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded by publicly backing Amodei’s call and pledging independent evaluators to assess model safety; Altman’s statement was reported as part of the endorsement in the same coverage (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).
Tesla chief Elon Musk also endorsed Amodei, tweeting “Dario is right,” a concise public affirmation that aligns two high-profile industry figures behind the idea of a development slowdown (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).
The synchronized endorsements mark an unusually public convergence: a leading safety-focused incumbent (Anthropic) called for restraint and two influential tech CEOs signaled support, elevating the ask from a niche safety debate to a mainstream industry conversation (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).
The sources document claims about risk and steps (independent evaluation) but do not provide detailed timelines, enforcement mechanisms, or which companies beyond Anthropic and OpenAI would commit to slowing development; the essay and endorsements are presented as appeals rather than binding agreements (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).
Observers will need concrete commitments on who would pause, what models or capability thresholds would trigger a slowdown, and which independent bodies would perform evaluations — none of which the source specifies (per timesofindia.indiatimes.com).