Stay Tuned NOW Streaming Behind The Scenes! – Sept 14
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Stay Tuned NOW Streaming Behind The Scenes! – Sept 14
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McConnell heads back to Capitol Hill after 3-month absence
McConnell heads back to Capitol Hill after 3-month absenceSource: Youtube
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President Trump Rejects Calls to Slow Down AI Development, and Says: “Whoever Wins AI Wins”
IBL News | New York
President Donald Trump rejected calls from top tech CEOs to slow down AI development, downplaying concerns that AI could go rogue.
He emphasized that the United States must maintain its competitive edge over China, declaring, “Whoever wins AI wins.”
Speaking to reporters at his Doonbeg golf resort in Ireland, the president said the dire warnings about AI were exaggerated and that “negative forces” are making claims about things that won’t happen.
“We’re leading China in AI, we’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins,” Trump said. “And we can put guardrails; we can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up.”
David Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, responded to Altman and Amodei on social media:
“I don’t see what you see in the lab,” Sacks wrote on X on Sunday. “If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.”
But Sacks admonished tech leaders to “stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic,” he wrote. “You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack.”
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) September 13, 2026
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Millions impacted by excessive rain and flash flooding
Millions impacted by excessive rain and flash floodingSource: Youtube
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Fuel prices rise as fighting expands in the Middle East
Fuel prices rise as fighting expands in the Middle EastSource: Youtube
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Washington leaders are far from being on the same page over AI
Washington leaders are far from being on the same page over AISource: Youtube
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Industry Leaders Call For Slowing Down AI’s Development
IBL News | New York
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of AI development in a 3,800-word essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” on Saturday. This three-part essay came days after one of Anthropic’s researchers, Jacob Coxon, quit over concerns about the technology’s safety.
On Tuesday, he posted a series of social media posts arguing that the leading AI labs were not developing the technology responsibly and were gambling with people’s lives.
Yesterday, Dario Amodei said that AI was advancing too rapidly for researchers to continue safely, while he highlighted that the technology could bring many benefits.
“Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems so they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report incidents, and assess model alignment during training,” he wrote.
Top executives from other major AI companies quickly joined the call. Elon Musk wrote, “Dario is right.” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote, “Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We’ll have more to share soon.” Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind, said Amodei’s essay was a step in the right direction. “The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment.”
For years, Dario Amodei has warned about the safety risks of AI while building a leading company in this industry.
He called for independent auditors to assess companies’ compliance with safety standards and urged global cooperation to establish rules for AI development.
Tensions have risen further after leading AI labs discovered security breaches committed by their own programs without their knowledge. In one incident this year, OpenAI’s systems breached an AI start-up called HuggingFace, and the breach went undetected until HuggingFace informed OpenAI weeks later.
Computer scientists believe that what they call “recursive self-improvement” can lead AI to spin out of their control. call is what some top A.I. developers. “Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,” Mr. Amodei said.
For years, top AI labs have been locked in bitter competition with one another. But as these systems have advanced, there has been some broader agreement among executives at rival companies that something needs to be done.
In June, President Trump signed an executive order asking for AI labs to voluntarily submit their models for review before public release.
Last month, when OpenAI released its latest model, Astra, it said it had intentionally slowed its development pace, citing advancements in cybersecurity capabilities.
Many in the tech world believe that Mr. Amodei’s intentions are not altruistic. Critics say that Anthropic and OpenAI are looking to cement their position as AI market leaders, as they pursue their upcoming trillionaire IPO, by stoking fear and asking the federal government to create regulatory frameworks that would make it more difficult for smaller companies to compete with them.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt
— Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) September 12, 2026
