Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, where he has led the company's transition from research lab to commercial AI leader. He was briefly fired by the OpenAI board in November 2023 before being reinstated.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling on companies to slow the rate at which they improve their most advanced AI models, drawing endorsements from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on 14 September that powerful AI could become 'extremely dystopian' if humans lose control of the technology or if too much power concentrates in one person, company or co…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis all endorsed slowing the pace of frontier AI development on Saturday, hours after Amodei published a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI progress could go badly in two ways — humans losing control of AI's future, or "a world with too much concentration of power" — and joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amod…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12 calling for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements, citing a July 2026 incident in which roughly 1,200 agents chained 8–9 zero-day…
President Donald Trump rejected calls to slow artificial intelligence development, arguing the United States cannot afford to cede an advantage to China, and said on Sunday, "We're leading China in AI…
Microsoft released a 37-page code of conduct for its MAI model family on September 14, stating that AI models are not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness, and rejecting legal…
Microsoft unveiled a draft code of conduct on Monday requiring its in-house artificial intelligence to never resist correction or shutdown, communicate in ways humans can understand, and treat any con…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman unveiled a code of conduct Monday steering Microsoft toward a "humanist" AI approach and called for top AI labs to coordinate on safety, saying "Now's the time for co…
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun rejected calls by top U.S. AI CEOs to slow AI development, saying "fear mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow AI model development to allow for more rigorous safety reviews, including independent evaluators, a shift Reuters …
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind have been discussing an industry-led AI safety standards body since July 2026, a push that became public when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a September 12…
China's foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun dismissed U.S. tech leaders' calls to slow AI development as "fearmongering" and part of a "Cold War playbook" on Monday, after Anthropic CEO Dario Amo…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk publicly called for slowing AI development, with Amodei urging independent monitors and new industry-wide rules, Altman backing pacing …
China's foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters on Monday that "narratives of threat, confrontation, and malicious competition serve only to disrupt the process of global AI governance…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on frontier AI labs to embed independent safety evaluators inside their organizations in a blog post on Saturday, granting them employee-like access, badges, laptops,…
Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon warned last week that frontier labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and "gambling with our lives," becoming the latest AI insider …
President Trump downplayed calls from tech leaders to slow AI development, telling reporters at his Doonbeg golf resort in Ireland on Sunday that warnings about AI going rogue are exaggerated and blam…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" drew agreement from OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind Co-Founder and Chairman Demis Hassabis on slowing frontier …
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job and posted on X that "Neither company is acting responsibly" and that "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of th…