{"slug": "top-ai-leaders-have-warned-about-the-tech-moving-too-fast-they-have-now-started", "title": "Top AI Leaders Have Warned About The Tech Moving Too Fast. They Have Now Started Working Together.", "summary": "OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that OpenAI is working with Anthropic and Alphabet's Google DeepMind on AI safety, with talks underway for several weeks and no antitrust waiver needed to coordinate. The discussions follow a report that the three companies are weighing an industry-wide AI safety body that could set common standards and checkpoints for frontier models, and come days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of AI advancement, a position backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Amodei also said Anthropic would give third-party safety evaluators ongoing \"employee-like access\" to parts of its operations, a commitment Altman said OpenAI would match.", "body_md": "# Top AI Leaders Have Warned About The Tech Moving Too Fast. They Have Now Started Working Together.\n\n## OpenAI's policy chief Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that the company is working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety.\n\n[OpenAI](https://www.ibtimes.com/topic/openai) has begun working with other top AI companies to address the potential dangers that the technology could pose if not paced.\n\nThe company's policy chief, Chris Lehane, [told Bloomberg News](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-15/openai-says-it-s-working-with-anthropic-google-on-ai-safety?srnd=homepage-americas) that the company is working with Anthropic and Alphabet on AI Safety.\n\nHe went on to say that the companies have been in talks for several weeks and doesn't believe they need an antitrust waiver to coordinate. \"It's better to try to work together to prioritize safety,\" he said.\n\nThe remarks follow a report claiming that the companies were also discussing the creation of a new industry-wide AI safety body that could establish common standards for the world's most powerful [artificial intelligence](https://www.ibtimes.com/topic/ai) systems.\n\nThe private discussions among the three companies have been underway as their leaders publicly call for slowing the development of increasingly capable AI, [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-ai-industrys-behind-scenes-push-police) detailed.\n\nThe potential organization could become a central mechanism for setting safety standards across companies developing frontier AI. It could also provide a framework that allows competitors to coordinate on safety without forcing individual companies to slow down while rivals continue racing ahead.\n\nSuch a body could potentially establish checkpoints that AI developers would have to meet as their models become more powerful. Amodei has proposed tying increasingly advanced capabilities to corresponding safety requirements, including evaluations, interpretability testing, and audits of the environments used to train models.\n\nThe move comes just days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei [called for slowing the pace of AI advancement](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier), a position backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk.\n\nAnother major component would be independent oversight. Amodei announced that Anthropic would give third-party safety evaluators ongoing, \"employee-like access\" to parts of its operations. Those evaluators would be able to verify whether the company is following its safety commitments, assess training processes and report serious incidents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman [subsequently said](https://x.com/sama/status/2099348812305473766?s=20) his company would make a similar commitment to independent evaluators.\n\nMusk made a similar call for developing safety measures on Monday, saying at the All-in Summit in Los Angeles that the companies, including \"three or four of the leading Chinese companies\" should let competitors run a \"test harness\" on their models to evaluate them.\n\n\"So, you know, instead of grading your own homework, you would at least have competitors grading your homework and raising the alarm if they see concerns,\" Musk said.\n\n© Copyright IBTimes 2026. 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