OpenAI and Anthropic have released a flurry of policy papers warning about the risks of rapid AI development.
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The two biggest AI labs in the world keep warning us about a future they're rapidly building toward.In the past two months, both frontier AI labs have released a flurry of policy and research papers warning of similar risks — uncontrollably fast AI development alongside government regulation that fails to keep up. This has come amid both companies releasing new AI models, including GPT-5.5 and Claude Fable 5.In a paper released last week, Anthropic called for a coordinated "slowdown or pause" in frontier model development across countries to allow policy frameworks to catch up."Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures," it wrote.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reiterated this in a blog post he published on Wednesday. He said AI is moving at a "lightning pace" while policy is "moving very slowly."Similarly, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote in a Monday blog post that there needs to be the formation of an "international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk."They said that this organization should slow frontier AI development down so that "societal resilience, safety, and alignment can keep pace."
