{"slug": "ai-leaders-rally-around-calls-to-slow-things-down", "title": "AI leaders rally around calls to slow things down", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday he has \"become convinced\" AI needs to pace its development to avert disaster, drawing endorsements from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, and researcher Andrej Karpathy. Altman said OpenAI would commit, as Anthropic had earlier, to embedding third-party safety evaluators inside the company with employee-level access, while Delangue said Hugging Face is launching an \"open alignment initiative\" and asked to be included among the labs hosting such evaluators. Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has not weighed in on Saturday, though he previously called for greater cooperation among AI leaders and governments.", "body_md": "The leaders of US AI labs are having a come-together moment.\n\nAfter Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday that he's \"become convinced\" AI needs to [pace its development](https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-slow-ai-safety-essay-openai-hugging-face-hack-2026-9) to avert disaster, other AI leaders quickly logged on to endorse the idea.\n\nMost notably, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X, \"I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier.\"\n\nAltman said OpenAI would commit, as Anthropic had earlier, to embedding third-party safety evaluators within the company with employee-level access.\n\nSpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, who rarely agrees with Altman, also backed Amodei's proposals on Saturday, writing in an X post, \"Dario is right.\"\n\nOther prominent industry leaders also chimed in.\n\nHugging Face CEO [Clement Delangue](https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-ceo-clem-delangue-openai-rogue-agent-hack-2026-7) said on X that his company was launching an \"open alignment initiative\" and asked to be included in the labs employing third-party safety evaluators.\n\nAndrej Karpathy, an AI researcher and former OpenAI and Tesla executive, also endorsed Amodei's plan to better monitor AI's development and ensure its safety. \"I love this and really hope we can come together as an industry and make it happen,\" he said on X.\n\nGoogle DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has yet to weigh in on Saturday. The AI leader, however, has previously called for more [cooperation among AI leaders](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-agi-safety-standards-body-gemini-2026-7) and governments.\n\n\"That calls for public policy that promotes innovation while also incentivizing responsibility and security, fosters international collaboration on key safety issues, and encourages careful consideration of how AI is deployed for the benefit of society,\" he wrote in a lengthy X post in July.\n\n*This is a developing story and will be updated.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-leaders-rally-around-calls-to-slow-things-down", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-slow-down-dario-amodei-sam-altman-elon-musk-2026-9", "published_at": "2026-09-12 17:21:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 17:50:16.020261+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "SpaceXAI", "Elon Musk", "Hugging Face", "Clement Delangue"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-leaders-rally-around-calls-to-slow-things-down", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-leaders-rally-around-calls-to-slow-things-down.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-leaders-rally-around-calls-to-slow-things-down.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-leaders-rally-around-calls-to-slow-things-down.jsonld"}}