AI CEOs: It's time to slow down

This week, several of the AI industry's biggest names said something unusual: that the pace should be slowed.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei writes in a new essay that AI is developing "drastically faster" than expected, and urges the labs to hold back. In a TV interview, he went further and said the industry has downplayed the real dangers for too long.

Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI agree with the message, perhaps surprisingly, since they normally compete fiercely. Microsoft's Satya Nadella has also weighed in, warning that a superintelligence without human control isn't worth striving for at all.

For you as an individual or company, this doesn't mean anything urgent right now. It's a signal of soul-searching at the top of the industry, not a concrete change in the tools you use today.

Watch whether the words are followed by action, for example new safety measures or concrete regulatory proposals. Only when that happens is there reason to adjust how you yourself use or implement AI.