A sharp divide has opened in Silicon Valley over which risks from artificial intelligence demand urgent attention—extinction-level scenarios warned by some industry leaders, or the more immediate practical dangers that others say are being overlooked. Recent weeks have seen intensifying calls for caution from top executives. Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and xAI CEO Elon Musk have all urged a slowdown in AI development, citing risks that systems could become uncontrollable. The pressure escalated when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on September 8, 2026, accusing both Anthropic and OpenAI of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Coxon said people building the technology "earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade."
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