{"id":846701,"date":"2026-09-13T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846701\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:58:14","slug":"openai-boss-and-elon-musk-back-calls-to-put-brakes-on-reckless-ai-development-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846701\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on \u2018reckless\u2019 AI development | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei,<\/a> to \u201cslow the pace\u201d of AI development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of \u201ctaking over the entire internet\u201d within a year.<\/p>\n

In a rare show of unity, the rival technology leaders threw their weight behind the appeal from the founder and chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic<\/a>, which came after a series of warnings from AI researchers last week. Amodei also called for safety coordination with China.<\/p>\n

But the US president, Donald Trump, on a visit to his golf course in Ireland, played down the warnings and said \u201cvery negative forces\u201d were \u201cbringing up things that won\u2019t happen\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re leading China in AI,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to \u2060keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.<\/p>\n

Amodei laid out his thoughts on \u201cwhy the AI industry should slow down\u201d, in an essay<\/a> with a three-part plan for doing so, starting with giving independent monitors constant access to developers\u2019 research processes. Amodei said \u201cbuilding [AI] too fast is reckless\u201d and he feared that after hundreds of OpenAI agents hacked into the Hugging Face website this summer, a swarm with greater capabilities but similarly misaligned could cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage by \u201ctaking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet\u201d. This was disputed by some AI experts<\/a> as not particularly plausible and to be treated with scepticism.<\/p>\n

Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, responded to Amodei\u2019s slowdown plan with a series of posts on X: \u201cDario is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019ve been sounding the alarm on AI for a long time,\u201d and referred to a 2014 post where he said: \u201cWe need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amodei\u2019s call comes as Anthropic prepares to float on the US stock market, in what is expected to be the biggest initial public offering of all time. It is expected to start marketing its planned $2tn-plus (\u00a31.5tn) IPO soon.<\/p>\n

From left to right: Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini,julien de Rosa,mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, responded to Amodei\u2019s comments on Saturday. \u201cI agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,\u201d he said in a post on X. \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

He also said OpenAI would not go public in 2026<\/a>, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don\u2019t feel pressure on that,\u201d Altman told Fortune<\/a>. Asked why he, Amodei, Musk, and the chief executives of Meta and Google did not sit down and \u201cget on the same page\u201d about a collective slowdown, he said: \u201cI think that will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demis Hassabis, a co-founder and chair of Google Deep Mind, also said: \u201cThe details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But some safety experts questioned whether Amodei\u2019s plan went far enough. David Krueger, an AI professor, safety campaigner and former founding director of the UK government\u2019s AI Security Institute, said: \u201cWe need an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium on frontier AI development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amodei\u2019s plan seeks a waiver from the US government to allow the frontier AI companies to coordinate without being punished for anti-competitive collusion. But David Sacks, a co-chair of Donald Trump\u2019s council of advisers on science and technology, said: \u201cStop pretending you need anyone else\u2019s permission \u2026 Stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyber-attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, King Charles is preparing to meet leading figures from the most prominent AI companies on Thursday to ask them how the technology can be developed under the theme \u201cAI for good\u201d. One session is set to be called \u201cprudence at the frontier\u201d, which is expected to explore the possibility for clear red lines on the uses of AI to create bioweapons and launch cyber-attacks on critical systems.<\/p>\n

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Those expected to attend the event overseen by the Ditchley Foundation, which has drawn up a draft charter for AI leaders, include: senior executives at OpenAI<\/a> and Anthropic; the Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang; Hassabis; Niccolo de Masi, the chair and chief executive of IonQ,; and Paolo Benanti, an adviser to the pope on issues of AI and technology ethics<\/p>\n

The OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin called<\/a> Amodei\u2019s essay \u201cexcellent\u201d and said he agreed \u201cwith basically every word\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amodei said his company would \u201cunilaterally\u201d commit to the first of the steps, saying Anthropic would provide \u201cthird-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models\u2019 alignment during training\u201d.<\/p>\n

Growing numbers of US lawmakers \u200bare calling for new rules<\/a> to govern AI systems after cases of AI agents going rogue<\/a> to hack external systems and AI \u200bsafety researchers quitting<\/a> their companies over concerns about the technology\u2019s risks.<\/p>\n

Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have responded with alarm and calls for more action. At the weekend the New York Times reported that Barack Obama on Thursday privately urged the Democrats to prioritise AI oversight in their agenda, telling party leaders on Thursday: \u201cThis is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don\u2019t get on top of it, I think can be dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former British prime minister Rishi Sunak, who advises Anthropic, wrote on Sunday: \u201cWe have had a wake-up call to take AI safety more seriously, to work out how to set limits on research. If governments don\u2019t heed this, the risk of a serious accident will become unacceptably high.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a former Anthropic employee had warned that AI could precipitate human extinction by 2030<\/a>. The researcher, Jacob Coxon, said in a series of posts<\/a> that he had quit his job because Anthropic and his previous employer, OpenAI, were ignoring or mishandling their response to the threat AI posed.<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on his former employee\u2019s view, Amodei said: \u201cI agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him \u2026 I think there\u2019s some chance that things go wrong but it\u2019s not all that high.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a doomer about this,\u201d he told CNN. \u201cI think this technology can be built safely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to \u201cslow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-846701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}