SoftBank shares fell as much as 13% in Asian trading after OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for slower development of advanced AI so safeguards can keep up with capabilities. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also called for “deliberate pacing” to keep AI under human control, while Elon Musk backed Amodei’s proposal. The selling extended across Asian stocks tied to AI.
OpenAI now prepares explicit safety cases before reinforcement learning runs likely to increase model capabilities substantially, extending checks beyond the release of completed models. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have committed to giving independent evaluators access comparable to employees; Anthropic’s evaluators will verify safety practices, report incidents and assess alignment during training. Altman said work need not wait for legislation or an antitrust exemption. “When we talk about ‘pacing’, we do not mean ‘stopping’,” he wrote, adding that progress should be slower than it otherwise could be.
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have held talks since July about creating an industry safety standards body, The Information reported. Amodei’s broader proposal calls for coordination among labs in democ
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- SOURCE@theo“Can't believe that Dario, Elon, Sam and I all agree on this.”x.com
- SOURCE@rohanpaul_ai“For example, at OpenAI we now formulate explicit safety cases in advance of frontier reinforcement learning runs we expect to significantly increase capability, in addition to the safety work we have long done in advance of model releases.”x.com
- SUPPORT@polymarket“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for “deliberate pacing” of advanced AI to keep it aligned & under human control.”x.com
- SUPPORT@cointelegraph“Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have quietly held working-group talks since July on building their own AI safety standards body, per The Information.”x.com
- SUPPORT@reuters“China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic”x.com
- SUPPORT@reuters“AI-connected stocks fell sharply in early Asian trading after the CEOs of the companies developing the most advanced AI models warned the pace of development must slow to prevent threats to humanity”x.com
- SOURCE@mtslive“Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are holding talks to create an industry-led standards body to police the AI sector, per The Information.”x.com
- SUPPORT@hesamation“Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have been having regular discussions since July about an industry-wide standards body for AI.”x.com