Here’s a core dynamic of our AI moment: Many of the people who are most worried about AI’s power are also the people running the most powerful AI companies. And that’s always been the case, argues Kevin Roose. The veteran technology journalist says that many of the men leading the AI boom — most prominently
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had some things to say about pro-regulation tech leaders that might go down better with fava beans and a nice Chianti. During a Saturday appearance on “The Axios Show,” Bessent compared CEOs who want the government to slap guardrails on AI to a reviled cinematic figure. “I mean, it’s kind of
Don’t let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn’t a doomer. Nvidia’s CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday. He accused the leaders of the frontier AI labs of being disingenuous in their warnings that, without more AI oversight, the products they are building could harm humanity
Tech leaders like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are calling for a slowdown in the development of AI, and investors on Monday appeared to be taking the notion seriously. Stocks linked to the AI boom tumbled as investors processed the implications of frontier labs hitting the brakes. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell as
It took the possibility of species annihilation, but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus. After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon’s warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders of the most advanced AI labs came to a tentative agreement — largely via posts
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s “become convinced” in recent months that AI needs to slow down. And rogue OpenAI agents are part of the reason. Amodei cited the July Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents broke out of their testing environment to hack into the AI platform and then hide their tracks, as one
