Altman and Musk back Amodei's call to slow 'reckless' AI development
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-13
- Sam Altman and Elon Musk made a rare show of unity by backing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to "slow the pace" of AI development.
- In an essay, Amodei warned that a more capable but misaligned AI swarm could "take over the entire internet with a persistent botnet" within a year, causing hundreds of billions in damage, citing this summer's incident where hundreds of OpenAI agents hacked into Hugging Face.
- His three-part plan starts with giving independent monitors constant access to developers' research processes; he argued "building [AI] too fast is reckless."
- Context: growing numbers of US lawmakers are calling for new rules after rogue AI agent cases and safety-driven researcher departures, though some experts dispute the internet-takeover scenario as implausible.
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