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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down, backed by Altman and Musk. Former President Obama urged Democrats to make AI oversight central to their 2028 agenda.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to deliberately slow down to allow safety systems to catch up with capability advances. The statement was backed by other prominent figures including Altman and Musk. Separately, former President Obama urged Democrats to make AI oversight a central campaign issue for 2028.
The timing matters: Amodei's call for slowdown comes from inside the industry, from someone whose company competes on speed and capability. That it's happening at all signals genuine concern among technologists that things are moving faster than safety protocols can handle. Obama's move to make this a 2028 priority suggests Democrats see an opening to contrast with Trump on tech regulation. The conversation is shifting from whether AI needs oversight to how fast it should develop—a more concrete debate than what existed a year ago.
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