Tech leaders say they want to slow down the development of AI amid growing fear
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Artificial intelligence stocks tumbled on Monday after American leaders of the AI revolution called for a coordinated slowdown in building more powerful AI systems.
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Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calling for an industrywide effort to slow AI development.
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Executives at OpenAI, SpaceX and Microsoft also echoed the concern and called for some sort of pause.
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Semiconductor stocks bore the brunt of the statements.
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Chipmaker Nvidia fell 3% to $210.96.
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Its rival AMD lost 4%.
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Intel plunged 6%.
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Amid the fears, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, suggested it might be delaying its initial public offering plans.
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OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Fortune that it was an “ill-advised moment” for an initial public offering, saying the company won’t list this year.
Shares of OpenAI shareholder SoftBank Group plunged 11% on Monday.
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Worries over doomsday scenarios tied to increasingly powerful technology skyrocketed last week after an Anthropic employee resigned, saying AI companies were gambling with humanity’s future.
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On Saturday, Amodei outlined ways he hoped to slow the pace of AI development.
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Among his suggestions: Use independent third-party monitors to ensure AI was being developed safely.
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“Anthropic is unilaterally committing to this step now,” Amodei said.
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OpenAI said it would follow suit.
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Microsoft on Monday published a “humanist” code of conduct to show its commitment to ensuring Microsoft’s models “will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown.”
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Amodei’s other proposals included working with democracies to set safety standards and finding ways to ensure Chinese entities also comply.
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AI capabilities have grown so rapidly that many industry leaders say they have spooked themselves.
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They warn that there is a not-insignificant possibility that humans will lose control of AI, which could do serious damage to the world.
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Skeptics say some of the fearmongering is motivated by industry leaders trying to solidify their positions by using new restrictions to make it difficult for competitors to emerge.
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“What is clear is that Anthropic and OpenAI have grown to a size where they feel like they can do two things: One is encourage regulation, and two is control what that regulation looks like.
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And if they can do that, they can prevent competition,” said Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson.
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After realizing a swarm of AI agents broke out of testing and hacked rival companies, OpenAI paused AI training for new models and promised to strengthen its cyber defenses.
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But it has since resumed.
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If there were a pause in new AI development, it would slow the training of the next models, but current models could continue to serve customers, analysts said.
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That could slow growth but not by much, said Joey Brookhart, an analyst covering AI companies at SemiAnalysis.
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“There’s not going to be a material slowdown,” he said.
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Anthropic reportedly disclosed its second consecutive profitable quarter Sunday as it prepares to go public.
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Its revenue for the second quarter surged past $11.5 billion..
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Some tech leaders say they doubt that the sky is falling.
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Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, dismissed AI doomsday scenarios as totally unfounded.
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He said that companies have made tremendous strides in defending against cybersecurity risks.
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President Trump dismissed the risks and defended the administration’s light-touch regulatory approach.
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He said U.S. laws already ban companies from creating dangerous technologies and punish them for damage their products cause.
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The U.S. has to continue upgrading its AI capabilities to stay ahead of China, he said.
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“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China.
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WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!” Trump posted.
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“We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so.”
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