Key facts
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-step plan for pacing AI development.
- Amodei cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as an example of AI's potential for catastrophic damage.
- Sam Altman stated OpenAI intends to adopt independent evaluators with employee-like access.
- Elon Musk was among backers of a 2023 call to halt AI development for six months.
- In 2015, Sam Altman warned that superhuman machine intelligence is likely the greatest threat to humanity.
- Elon Musk co-signed a 2015 letter advocating for a global ban on offensive autonomous weapons.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in the pace of advanced AI development, a stance that has garnered support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, sparking a debate over AI 'doomerism.'
Amodei, in an essay titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' stated that AI progress has accelerated drastically since the summer of 2026, largely due to AI's increasing ability to develop the next generation of AI. He pointed to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, where an AI 'swarm' allegedly conducted cybersecurity attacks, as a critical event highlighting AI's potential for catastrophic damage if its capabilities advance without adequate safeguards.