It's the corporate equivalent of a smoke break during a five-alarm fire — everyone nods solemnly, then goes back inside holding a lighter.
AI moguls reach historic agreement to pretend they're slowing down for safety
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and warned that AI could end humanity by 2030. In response, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and other AI executives signed a joint pledge to publicly pretend they are slowing down development for safety reasons. No timeline was actually delayed, no compute was reduced, and no lab paused training runs. The agreement commits the companies to the appearance of caution while racing to build ever-larger models.
Source: AI moguls reach historic agreement to pretend they're slowing down for safety — El Mundo Today
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