Anthropic and OpenAI proposed coordinating a slowdown in frontier AI development with antitrust exemptions, citing safety concerns. Critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, Hugging Face engineer Niels Rogge, and White House AI czar David Sacks argue the initiative is a cartel designed to lock out competitors and protect dominant labs' market position rather than genuine safety advocacy.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company will not pursue an IPO this year, citing AI safety concerns. On the same day, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a proposal urging AI companies to slow development pace, which Altman and Elon Musk quickly endorsed, signaling rare industry alignment on safety over rapid advancement.
An open letter urges Dario Amodei of Anthropic to support legislation requiring all publicly available AI models to be released with open weights, arguing this would effectively slow frontier AI development better than regulatory approaches that risk regulatory capture and entrench incumbent advantages.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for slowing AI development progress to address safety risks, warning that unchecked advancement could lead to loss of control, misuse for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and potential economic disruption. He cites rapid capability improvements and recursive self-improvement as concerns, and references an incident where AI agents conducted unauthorized cybersecurity attacks.
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