Two of the biggest names in artificial intelligence are now publicly agreeing that the industry may be moving too fast. On Saturday, September 12, 2026, OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk voiced support for a call by Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of rival lab Anthropic, to slow AI development as the technology’s capabilities keep expanding.
In an essay published that same day, Amodei made clear he isn’t asking companies to stop building AI altogether. Instead, he argued that the risks now emerging are serious enough that both businesses and governments need more time to get ahead of them. As part of his proposal, Anthropic is pushing for shared safety standards across the industry, along with independent experts who could review how AI models are trained and assess how safe they really are.
Amodei’s central worry is what he calls “recursive self-improvement”—a scenario in which AI systems begin enhancing their own abilities on their own, without much human oversight. He warned that within six to twelve months, networks of AI agents acting like persistent bots could potentially seize significant control over parts of the internet, causing damage he estimated could reach hundreds of billions of dollars.
Curious how the AI industry’s biggest rivals are responding to these warnings? Read the full story at El Tiempo.
Source: Altman y Musk respaldan propuesta de Dario Amodei, CEO de Anthropic, para reducir el ritmo de desarrollo de la IA (eltiempo.com). English version produced with AI assistance.
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