ai leaders and politicians weigh in on slowing down ai development

anthropic ceo dario amodei published an essay titled 'we must pace the frontier' outlining three steps to slow ai development: embedded third-party evaluators, coordination between frontier ai companies, and global coordination. openai ceo sam altman and google deepmind co-founder demis hassabis agree with amodei's proposals, with altman committing to independent evaluators at openai. however, us president donald trump pushed back on the idea of an ai slowdown, saying a 'strong and smart' president is the only control ai needs. this debate impacts ai safety and regulation, with implications for the future of ai development.