Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei’s call to slow down the frontier of AI development
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two biggest rivals: OpenAI Group PBC CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
In a new essay posted on his personal blog, Amodei argued that AI developers should make a conscious effort to slow down, rather than continue racing to push out newer and more powerful frontier models. Hours later, Musk, founder and CEO of X.AI Corp., responded to Amodei’s post on X, saying he agreed with his position. Altman then chimed in to back the proposal too, adding that the issue is already a major topic of discussion within the upper echelons of his company.
“I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Altman wrote in a post on X. He suggested that OpenAI would also welcome Amodei’s idea of having independent evaluators to oversee his company’s work, with a similar level of access to that of its top employees.
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
