AI Leaders Split Over Calls to Slow Frontier Model Development
Executives at OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing for an AI slowdown on safety grounds, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Chinese officials and President Trump reject the concerns.
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A public disagreement has opened among artificial intelligence leaders over whether the development of the most advanced AI models should be slowed on safety grounds, according to reporting by Tom's Hardware.
According to the outlet, employees and senior figures at several leading AI companies spent the past week urging a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models. Their argument draws on warnings from internal teams and outside researchers that a super-intelligent system could pose risks to humanity. The chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic were among those calling for a general slowdown and for external governance of the technology.
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