Anthropic Just Asked the AI Industry to Slow Down. Nothing in It Asks Anyone to Buy Fewer Nvidia Chips.
What's happening
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for slowing the pace of AI model advances and proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier," including giving third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to check safety practices and commitments. Separately, OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman have signaled openness to slowing advanced AI development, with internal discussion reported and Altman telling staff OpenAI is open to slowing development. Multiple outlets and community posts are treating these statements as a coordinated industry conversation about pausing or pacing AI progress.
Why it's trending
High-profile CEOs at Anthropic and OpenAI have both pushed for slowing AI model advances and for third-party evaluation, making safety and pacing a visible, immediate industry talking point.
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Everyone is calling for an AI slowdown, but none of these public asks actually tells companies to buy fewer Nvidia chips, so the industry pause looks more like PR than a procurement pause.
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- We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says
AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.
TechCrunch AISep 16 - What Amodei’s Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent appeal for a pause on AI development is a welcome one. But while AI companies do indeed need more breathing space to consider the full impact of their inventions before releasing them to the market, self-interested oversight is not the kind of governance we need.
r/artificialSep 15 - Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model AdvancesHackerNewsSep 12
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