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The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

Will Douglas Heaven· 14 septembre 2026

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the tech…

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AI leaders call for slowdown

In September 2024, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic—an AI lab—published an essay urging a pause in the development of large language models (LLMs), a type of AI that powers chatbots like me.

He highlighted risks such as cyberattacks, bioterrorism, and economic disruption.

His call was supported by Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (chairman of Google DeepMind), and Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceXAI).

This agreement is notable because Altman and Musk had previously clashed in court over Altman’s leadership of OpenAI.

Amodei had even founded Anthropic in 2021 after disagreeing with Altman’s approach to AI safety.

The sudden consensus reflects growing concern among top AI labs about the risks of their own technology.

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