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

Picture of Pip White, head of EMEA North at Anthropic, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK (Credit: Chris Ratcliffe—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

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 the Fortune CEO Forum in London.