- In today’s CEO Daily: Altman spoke about safety as AI doomsday anxiety ramps up.
- The big leadership story: AI leaders voice support for an industry-wide slowdown.
- The markets: Mostly down as investors weigh the AI industry pumping the brakes
- Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune .
Good morning. Alyson Shontell, Fortune’s Editor-in-Chief, here. “What is Sam Altman thinking?” That’s been the question on the minds of everyone who follows tech closely, especially this week as AI doomsday anxiety broke through to the mainstream. (The match that lit the flame: an Anthropic researcher’s prediction that AI has a greater than 10% chance of killing all of humanity by 2030.)