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This week in AI: Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is calling for slower development of the most powerful AI systems. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed him. Updated 2026-09-14
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Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is calling for slower development of the most powerful AI systems. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed him. They call this “pacing”: allowing more time for safety work as AI improves. AI Weekly’s coverage...
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Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is calling for slower development of the most powerful AI systems. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed him. They call this “pacing”: allowing more time for safety work as AI improves. AI Weekly’s coverage...
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