Anthropic's CEO just called on the entire AI industry to slow down, while his own company's balance sheet depends on the biggest accelerators in the business. The conflict at the heart of that position may be impossible to resolve.

Amodei urged rivals to invite embedded external auditors into their offices and coordinate a slowdown in development of AI that would allow regulators to catch up.

Amodei’s essay comes on the heels of an Anthropic researcher’s resignation over concerns that the firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly with AI development.