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Liz Wolfe | 9.15.2026 9:30 AM

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Amodei skepticism: "The calls by four American tech CEOs for a slowdown in AI development is a big economic and political moment, though to what end isn't clear," writes The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, responding to the Dario Amodei letter published over the weekend that called for an AI development slowdown, which was quickly agreed to by the heads of other major AI companies.

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"The CEOs can also see how the politics of AI are moving toward panic. The opposition to data centers based on misinformation is one signal. They can also see the plaintiff bar circling in wait for an incident when rogue agents do more harm than the Hugging Face event," continues the Journal, referring to incidents in which swarms of rogue agents have attacked other companies and stolen their data. "The warnings of Apocalypse are also growing, often uninformed and amplified by those like Bernie Sanders who want government to stop the industry until the politicians can run it. By offering to slow down on their own, and invite outside monitors to inspect their models, the CEOs are hoping to head off such an outcome."

Crucially, writes the editorial board, "nothing now is stopping these firms from 'pacing the frontier' on their own, to use Mr. Amodei's phrase. OpenAI and Anthropic are leading the frontier. If what they see in their shops is truly dangerous, by all means be........

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