Several leaders in the tech industry are warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could become dangerous to humanity.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said fellow tech industry executives should collaborate to create shared standards for the monitoring and safety of AI.
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot.
— Sam Altman (@sama) September 14, 2026
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It comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in an essay that developers should slow the pace of AI and that more regulation is needed, worrying there could be catastrophic consequences.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
— Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) September 12, 2026
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon spoke out last week, saying Anthropic and OpenAI are “gambling with our lives” with the development of self-improving superintelligence.
“It doesn’t look that different from, say, ‘Terminator’ or from science fiction films,” Coxon told CBS News Thursday. “It will be smart enough to kill us.”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has joined the conversation about AI, releasing the following statement:
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing.
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) September 13, 2026
We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across…
In media interviews Sunday, congressional democrats and republicans agreed that lawmakers should come up with guardrails to protect against “runaway” AI.
During an appearance on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson said that AI developers – not Congress – should be responsible for ensuring the products are safe. He went on to state that any guardrails put on AI should not allow the U.S. to cede dominance in the field to China.
President Donald Trump expressed similar sentiments while traveling in Ireland over the weekend, saying, “We’re leading China in AI…and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins."
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