Sam Altman and Elon Musk Support Slowing Down AI Development

On Saturday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk expressed their support for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development, amid a series of incidents related to the technology. Altman wrote on the X platform: “I agree with Dario,” noting that his company would engage independent monitors to verify the safety of its AI systems, in line with the commitment announced by Amodei. Musk stated that “Dario is right.”