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Anthropic Calls for Global Slowdown of Frontier AI Development

By Drooid · Sep 16, 2026, 2:04 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a global slowdown of frontier AI development.
Anthropic proposed a three-part plan with third-party evaluators, coordinated safety standards, and government-led outreach.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman echoed the slowdown proposal on X.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected coordinated slowdowns, citing natural incentives and a delayed Muse release for safety.
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris warned AI could “escape human control” and urged sensible guardrails.

History

Historical Context

The Partnership on AI was announced on 28 September 2016 by Amazon, Facebook, Google, DeepMind, Microsoft and IBM, establishing an industry-wide safety framework and launching the AI Incident Database in 2020. By 2024 the group counted 126 partners, a scale that underpins calls from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and former Vice President Kamala Harris for coordinated AI slowdowns and oversight.

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Story summary

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a global slowdown of frontier AI development.
Anthropic proposed a three-part plan with third-party evaluators, coordinated safety standards, and government-led outreach.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman echoed the slowdown proposal on X.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected coordinated slowdowns, citing natural incentives and a delayed Muse release for safety.
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris warned AI could “escape human control” and urged sensible guardrails.

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