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AI giants rally behind Amodei’s essay

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog essay on Saturday titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" calling for slowing the pace of AI development, writing that "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk backed Amodei's position, which followed two Anthropic employees quitting over concerns the technology is progressing too quickly.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Grok CEO Elon Musk, two of the most prominent executives in the artificial intelligence industry, backed peer Dario Amodei after he published a blog on Saturday titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” that calls for slowing the pace of AI development.

“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei said in the lengthy essay after a week in which two Anthropic employees quit over concerns the technology is progressing too quickly.

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