Altman, Musk and Hassabis All Back Amodei's Slowdown Call

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12 arguing the AI industry should slow down, laying out three steps and committing Anthropic unilaterally to the first: permanent, employee-level access for third-party evaluators. Within roughly thirty hours, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and xAI's Elon Musk all publicly agreed, with Altman saying OpenAI would match the evaluator commitment and Hassabis floating an industry-wide standards body. The alignment among four direct competitors is unusual. What each of them actually committed to is not equivalent: one firm commitment, one pledge to match, one proposed venue, and one statement of support with no operational detail. No model was delayed, no capability threshold was named, no date was se ...