‘Our industry sees the risks and is concerned’: European tech leaders join calls for AI slowdown

European tech leaders have lent their support to calls to slow down AI advancement, following warnings that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity.

“Slowing the pace of this technology is important, but it needs to be [regulated] across governments and we need enforcement across countries for it to work,” said Pip White, head of U.K. and Ireland, Northern Europe, and Israel at Anthropic, speaking at Fortune’s CEO Forum in London. 

Her comments came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his own appeal on social media for AI companies to pace frontier development. In the post, he called for global coordination to address the risks of AI and said Anthropic would “unilaterally” commit to giving external evaluators access to its models, training, and processes to ensure their safety.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis, the cofounder and chair of Google DeepMind, have all voiced their support for Amodei’s proposal to slow the pace of AI development. Altman and Amodei briefed the UN Security council on Wednesday (Sep. 23) on the threats of uncontrollable AI and the need for global alignment to ensure the technology’s safety.

“Most people in our industry see the risks and are concerned, and this requires a global coordination effort for the best outcomes possible,” White added. 

Fears around AI have hit a fever pitch recently after a former Anthropic and OpenAI employee, Jacob Coxon, shared concerns that “neither company........

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