Anthropic CEO's AI slowdown call met with skepticism from Trump administration and experts
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-14
The Guardian analyzes the backlash to Anthropic's CEO safety-slowdown proposal. Key points:
- David Sacks, co-chair of Trump's science and tech advisory council, mocked the idea: the easiest way not to build super-intelligence is for Anthropic to agree not to build it
- Just a week earlier, OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra was marketed as a lifestyle tool (booking tennis courts, running fashion companies, ordering takeaways)
- Resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade"
- Critics describe the slowdown call as 'too little, too late' and question the motives of AI leaders
Related event: Anthropic CEO Calls for Coordinated Slowdown of Frontier AI(191 posts)→
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