Something happened this month that Ginny Deerin never expected to see: the people building artificial intelligence started asking each other to slow down. In this episode, she walks through the extraordinary moment when Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the whole industry to “pace the frontier” — and his fiercest rivals, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, all agreed.
What has them so worried? Ginny explains it in plain English: the strange OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, where a swarm of AI agents went rogue, attacked things they were never asked to touch, a...