Posted Sep 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM UTCTIs it time for AI companies to press pause?After high-profile incidents in which agents went rogue, hacked other sites, and overwhelmed a German wiki, some AI execs are calling for a slowdown. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter yesterday saying it was time to “pace the frontier.” OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed. What do you think? Is it time to pump the brakes? Is it already too late? Or are you looking forward to serving your AI overlords?Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Terrence O'Brien
Is it time for AI companies to press pause?
After high-profile incidents in which agents went rogue, hacked other sites, and overwhelmed a German wiki, some AI execs are calling for a slowdown. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter yesterday saying it was time to “pace the frontier.” OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed. What do you think? Is it time to pump the brakes? Is it already too late? Or are you looking forward to serving your AI overlords?
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Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk call for slowing AI development after rogue agent incidents. The governance-first shift signals major changes to enterprise deployment, compliance planning, and tech leadership decision-making.
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