{"id":93773,"date":"2026-09-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/?p=93773"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:32:23","slug":"top-a-i-leaders-call-for-slowing-down-a-i-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/top-a-i-leaders-call-for-slowing-down-a-i-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Top A.I. leaders call for slowing down A.I. development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, just days after one of the company\u2019s employees quit over concerns about the safety of the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top executives of other major A.I. companies quickly signed on to the effort. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI; Elon Musk, whose SpaceX rocket company has been ramping up spending on A.I.; and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind, wrote in social media posts that they agreed on the need for a slower pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Amodei, who co-founded Anthropic to focus on securely and carefully building A.I., wrote in his essay that while he believed the technology could bring many benefits, it was advancing at too rapid a pace for researchers to continue safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence \u2014 not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up,\u201d Mr. Amodei wrote. \u201cWe must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of A.I. models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Amodei has warned about the safety risks of A.I. for years. But his essay amounted to one of the most full-throated calls for urgent action from a leading A.I. company executive to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called for independent auditors to check the companies for safety standards and urged global cooperation in creating rules around A.I. development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal for an industrywide pause follows months of escalating concerns across the technology industry as A.I. model development has made significant strides at companies like Anthropic, the developer of the Claude chatbot, as well as OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and Google\u2019s DeepMind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensions rose further after the leading A.I. labs discovered security breaches carried out by their own programs without their knowledge. In one incident this year, OpenAI\u2019s systems breached an A.I. start-up called HuggingFace, which was not detected until HuggingFace informed OpenAI weeks after it had happened. Since then, A.I. researchers have conferred to discuss what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, resigned and posted a series of social media posts about how the leading A.I. labs were not responsibly developing the technology and were gambling with people\u2019s lives, setting off a furor. Other A.I. researchers have called on their leaders to pause A.I. development, while some are forming splinter groups to raise more awareness about the risks of A.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A.I. leaders are girding themselves for a day when an A.I. system can rely on itself to grow more advanced rather than requiring the aid of human researchers. This dynamic, which computer scientists call \u201crecursive self improvement,\u201d is what some top A.I. developers believe may lead to the software spinning out of their control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLeft unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,\u201d Mr. Amodei said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours after Mr. Amodei published his essay, Mr. Altman posted a statement to social media agreeing that a slowdown of A.I. development was necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has been a primary topic of discussions we\u2019ve had at OpenAI in recent weeks,\u201d Mr. Altman wrote. \u201cCommitting to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We\u2019ll have more to share soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Musk, in a post on his social media platform X, said simply, \u201cDario is right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday evening, Mr. Hassabis said Mr. Amodei\u2019s essay was a step in the right direction. \u201cThe details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment,\u201d Mr. Hassabis posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, many of the top A.I. labs have been locked in bitter competition with one another. But as these systems have advanced, there has been some broader agreement among executives at rival companies that something needs be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, as OpenAI prepared to release an advanced A.I. model called Astra, the company said it had intentionally slowed down its pace of development, citing advancements in cybersecurity capabilities. In July, Google\u2019s Mr. Hassabis published an open framework for what he believed would be a safe way to cooperatively develop next-generation A.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied those claims.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are few rules on A.I. development, though President Trump signed an executive order in June asking for A.I. labs to voluntarily submit their models for review before public release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his essay on Saturday, Mr. Amodei suggested actions that the industry might take to slow the pace of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Amodei said that all A.I. labs could agree to third-party technology assessments from \u201cembedded evaluators,\u201d or outside specialists who could verify best safety practices across companies. He also suggested that countries with democratic governance systems coordinate to create safety standards, which could take the form of regulatory action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that it would probably require a global effort working with other nations, including authoritarian ones, to properly coordinate a slowdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not everyone in Silicon Valley believes that Mr. Amodei\u2019s intentions are purely altruistic. Some critics have said that Anthropic and OpenAI are looking to cement their position as A.I. market leaders by stoking fear and asking the federal government to create regulatory frameworks that would make it more difficult for smaller companies to compete with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a tech conference in San Francisco this past week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the A.I. chip maker Nvidia, said that A.I. labs were ratcheting up security concerns because they planned to introduce new cybersecurity products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat better way to create demand than to create a problem?\u201d Mr. Huang said at the event. \u201cWho doesn\u2019t want their market to be hysterical about their product and line up around the corner for it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, shortly after Mr. Amodei published his essay, Cl\u00e9ment DeLangue, the chief executive of HuggingFace, said in a social media post that it was imperative that A.I. safety issues not \u201cbe solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs.\u201d Nvidia agreed to buy HuggingFace this month for $12.9 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his essay, Mr. Amodei stressed that he still finds A.I. capable of bringing \u201cincredible benefits\u201d to humanity, including potentially curing diseases and accelerating economic growth. But even so, he said the risks of A.I. were too great to not proceed with extreme caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe measures I propose to advance the frontier at a safe pace will not be easy,\u201d Mr. Amodei wrote. \u201cBut I believe we owe it to humanity to try.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n