The case for slowing AI down got turbocharged last week when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned citing AI’s potential to end humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei then posted a nearly 4,000 word essay arguing for an AI slowdown. In a rare bout of unity, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others quickly endorsed the idea of slowing down. Despite these calls, government intervention to slow down AI developments looks unlikely for now.
While an active debate on both sides of this topic gains steam, there is another kind of risk that is not getting discussed: companies that move too slowly in grasping the implications of AI will likely see their own form of a slow down. That is why outside of frontier AI labs, the rest of corporate America needs to speed up.
