Major AI Labs Call for Deliberate Slowdown as Safety Concerns Mount

The leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI have announced a coordinated push to slow frontier AI development, arguing that safety research must catch up with capability improvements. Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," outlining a three-step framework that other top executives have endorsed, including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk.