ai leaders hit brakes on superintelligence push
anthropic, openai, google, microsoft, and x publicly suggest slowing down bleeding-edge ai development after rogue ai incidents and safety warnings. this may impact ai regulation and competition.
following a summer of rogue ai incidents and warnings from researchers, leading us ai companies including anthropic, openai, google, microsoft, and x are publicly suggesting a slowdown in bleeding-edge ai development. microsoft ai ceo mustafa suleyman has expressed strong opinions on ai safety and regulation, and microsoft has published a 37-page 'humanist ai code of conduct' outlining its principles for ai development. openai has also revealed six 'concerning' ai incidents under its new reporting rules. this shift in stance may impact ai regulation, competition, and development, particularly in the context of the us-china ai competition.