AI safety panic · Sept. 2026

AI CEOs Built the Monster. Now They Want Credit for Hearing It Breathe.

Amodei called for a slowdown. Altman and Musk agreed. Zuck said everybody should manage their own apocalypse.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in an Axios story about calls to slow AI development
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow frontier-model development and allow stronger external evaluation. Axios reported that Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly agreed.

Then Zuckerberg declined the group project. The Associated Press reported that he argued each lab already has the responsibility and incentive to move at a safe pace on its own.

The risk debate is real. So is the spectacle: the people flooring the accelerator have convened a very serious discussion about brakes.

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