The CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and XAI stated that AI development should slow down.
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Multiple independent outlets, including Reuters, Bloomberg, The Hill and NPR, report that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development and that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk publicly agreed in posts on X. The claim's core assertion is supported, and the extraction matches the passage, which says the same thing.
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… That's an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas using promo code TPO. In other brews, here's a rapid round of updates. President Trump is rejecting calls for AI guardrails after the CEOs of Anthropic, Open AI, and XAI said AI development should slow down. Number 47 argued there are already government safeguards, and that further restrictions would benefit China in the AI race, noting, quote, Whoever wins AI wins. …
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Supports. Reuters reports that Amodei called on AI companies to slow the rate at which they advance model capabilities, and that Musk and Altman said in X posts they agreed with him.[1]
Supports. Bloomberg reports that Amodei called for a slowdown in the pace of frontier model development, and that Altman and Musk backed the call, with Musk writing 'Dario is right.'[2]
Supports. The Hill reports that after Amodei's call, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk 'followed suit' by calling for a slowdown in AI capability development.[3]
Supports. NPR and TechTarget both report that leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI called for a slowdown of frontier AI development over the weekend of September 12-13, 2026.[4][5]
Context. Sources describe the statements as agreement with Amodei's essay rather than a fully detailed joint plan; Altman's stated commitment focused on independent evaluators, and Musk's on agreement, so the 'should slow down' framing is a reasonable reading of their public positions.[1][2]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 tier 2, 1 tier 1, 1 not rated
- 1Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development amid fears over misusereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2In stunning unison, Amodei, Altman, Musk call for slowing AI model developmentbloomberg.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 3AI leaders Elon Musk, Sam Altman call for development slowdownthehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 4AI industry leaders call for development to slow down after recent safety concernsnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5AI CEOs call for slowing AI boom as billions flow to data ...techtarget.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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