An AI Slowdown Proposal
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min · 2 segments
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Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min · 2 segments
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[upbeat music] Both Sam Altman and Elon Musk expressed some rare support for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei this weekend, who wrote in a blog post about the need to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development.
Amodei says AI has gotten better at training itself in a process called recursive self-improvement.
It comes amid a series of warnings from ex-employees of AI companies who say the industry isn't doing enough to mitigate the risks of the technology.
Meanwhile, White House advisor David Sacks says he supports the slowdown effort, but he also says the move is driven at least in part by business considerations, writing, "The easiest way to not build superintelligence is for you to agree to not build it." And LG has responded to recent reports that its smart TVs are collecting data on customers even when they're turned off.
The company says its TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations, and that wake word detection is processed locally.
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[upbeat music] Both Sam Altman and Elon Musk expressed some rare support for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei this weekend, who wrote in a blog post about the need to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development.
Amodei says AI has gotten better at training itself in a process called recursive self-improvement.
It comes amid a series of warnings from ex-employees of AI companies who say the industry isn't doing enough to mitigate the risks of the technology.
Meanwhile, White House advisor David Sacks says he supports the slowdown effort, but he also says the move is driven at least in part by business considerations, writing, "The easiest way to not build superintelligence is for you to agree to not build it." And LG has responded to recent reports that its smart TVs are collecting data on customers even when they're turned off.
The company says its TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations, and that wake word detection is processed locally.
