America needs responsible leadership on AI development. It has Trump instead

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay over the weekend calling for a global slowdown in AI development, arguing the risk to humanity outpaced the benefits, according to the article. The plea drew half-hearted endorsements from SpaceX's Elon Musk, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and came days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit over safety concerns, warning the technology has more than a 10% chance of killing all humans.

Another cry for help came from the billionaires building the artificial intelligence machinery that threatens to upend — if not end — the world: Save us from ourselves before it is too late Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, posted a 3,800-word essay over the weekend that called for a global slowdown in the development of AI because the risk to humanity outpaced the benefits. Other leading Big Tech masters of the universe offered half-hearted endorsements for a slowdown, including SpaceX’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. Amodei’s plea came just days after an Anthropic researcher quit over safety concerns and issued a grave warning that the technology has more than a 10% chance of killing all humans. “Do not underestimate the power of this technology,” Jacob Coxon wrote in a lengthy social media post. “These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources … The people building AI earnestly believe that it could