The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development.

Their motivations are suspect, but leaders at major AI companies — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and X — are at least paying lip service to the idea of a superintelligence slowdown.

Will these AI companies actually slow down? Will anyone step in to regulate these companies like they claim to have wanted for years? Will they manage to convince world leaders that the US must “beat China” to superintelligence and go even faster?

Read on below for the latest updates in this AI saga.

• Anthropic proposes three rules for measuring AI progress.
• King Charles says AI needs “sufficient means of control before it is all too late.”
• Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
• OpenAI reveals six more “concerning” AI incidents under its new rules for reporting safety issues.
• Jensen Huang sure is getting cozy with Trump.
• A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
• Two Google Deepmind researchers lend voices to the AI apocalypse.
• Guy getting super rich off unfettered AI development says it doesn’t need regulation.
• Zuck doesn’t want to press pause on AI.
• Barack Obama takes the middle way on AI.
• Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
• What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
• Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
• China: AI CEOs are “fear mongering.”
• Sam Altman: Let’s slow down.
• Is it time for AI companies to press pause?
• Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
• Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI