AI Development Slowdown Concerns
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- Steve KopackNBC News
- Lauren AlmeidaThe Guardian
- Anna WiseEvening Standard
- Natasha LennardThe Intercept
- Brendan RuberrySemafor
- Nilesh ChristopherLos Angeles Times
- Stan ChoeSydney Morning Herald
- Mary CunninghamCBS News
- Liz WolfeReason
- Kishor Napier-RamanSydney Morning Herald
- Reed AlbergottiSemafor
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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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The S&P 500 and blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.5% and 0.3%, respectively.
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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- 14 Sep
Artificial intelligence stocks tumbled on Monday after American leaders of the AI revolution called for a coordinated slowdown in building more powerful AI systems.
- 17 Sep
OpenAI and Anthropic, the dominant frontier labs, have thrown plenty of elbows in their race toward stratospheric, trillion-dollar stockmarket listings.
Coverage 12 articles
18 Sep The real reason not to IPO
Semafor17 Sep Why AI hasn’t taken your job yet
Sydney Morning Herald
15 Sep Hoax
Reason
15 Sep Tech stocks slump after AI execs call for industry slowdown
CBS News
15 Sep Tech stock selloff after AI leaders call for slowdown in development
CBS News14 Sep ASX set to slip, tech stocks weigh on Wall Street; Trump lashes out over ‘SICK conspiracy’ against AI
Sydney Morning Herald
14 Sep Tech leaders say they want to slow down the development of AI amid growing fear
Los Angeles Times
14 Sep AI slowdown calls prompt chip selloff
Semafor
14 Sep Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The Intercept
14 Sep Tech stocks fall after calls for AI development to slow
Evening Standard
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