OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development

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Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchersAnalysis: critics perplexed and suspicious of call for a slowdownThe Guardian view: humanity cannot outsource its survivalSam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of AI development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire internet” within a year.In a rare show of unity, the rival tech