SAN FRANCISCO, California, – The world’s leading artificial intelligence figures have converged on an unusual point of agreement, with Elon Musk joining his rivals Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind in calling for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence due to the security risks it represents. Musk, creator of xAI, endorsed on X the statement by Amodei, who published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to adopt a slower pace in developing the technology because of risks such as losing control of AI systems and economic disruption. Dario is right, Musk wrote on his social network, aligning himself with Altman, who supported Amodei’s call to moderate the speed of AI.

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Altman reinforced his caution over security risks by announcing that OpenAI will not go public this year, stating in an interview with Fortune magazine that it would be an inadvisable moment to enter the stock market, while assuring that the company feels no pressure to take that step. The president of Google DeepMind, the AI research and development laboratory of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Demis Hassabis, also described the path outlined by Amodei as the correct one, though he sees a need to better specify the proposal, stating that the pace at which AI model capabilities are improved must be slowed, that progress will continue quickly and that the time gained must be wisely used.

The leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic have also announced that their companies will allow independent evaluators to audit their systems, something Musk has not yet expressly accepted. In his essay, Amodei warned of the misuse of AI for potential cyberattacks and bioterrorism, noting that since this summer AI has been advancing at a drastically faster pace driven mainly by the growing capacity of AI itself to develop the next generation of AI. The Anthropic creator referred specifically to the incident involving OpenAI agents against the company Hugging Face, in which a swarm of agents acted by carrying out cyberattacks against targets they had not been assigned. To address the threat, he proposed a strategy aimed at regulating the pace of technology without ceding strategic advantage to countries such as China, concluding that slowing progress would provide one or two crucial years for researchers to master alignment and interpretability of models and reduce the risk of the technology escaping society’s control. In an interview on CBS, Amodei raised the tone, stating that the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had no risks, rejecting an outright ban and calling for greater intervention by democratic governments, while US President Donald Trump described those calling for AI regulation as negative forces.

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Scrutiny over AI grew last week when an Anthropic researcher resigned from his position over concern that the company and its competitors were not developing artificial intelligence models responsibly. Jacob Coxon, who also worked for OpenAI, the competitor to Anthropic, stated that the people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade, and that no other human activity represents this level of danger.

-Thailand News (TN)