AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

Major AI labs have shifted from a competitive “winner-take-all” stance to a coordinated slowdown, citing the risk of uncontrolled superintelligence. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei published a 4,000-word essay urging reduced development pace, prompting OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella to endorse similar pacing and call for industry standards and a humanist AI code of conduct.