{"id":24860,"date":"2026-09-13T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/too-little-too-late-critics-perplexed-and-suspicious-of-ai-leaders-call-for-a-slowdown\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:37:25","slug":"too-little-too-late-critics-perplexed-and-suspicious-of-ai-leaders-call-for-a-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/too-little-too-late-critics-perplexed-and-suspicious-of-ai-leaders-call-for-a-slowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too little, too late\u2019: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders\u2019 call for a slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/13\/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-back-anthropic-calls-brakes-ai-development\">OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on \u2018reckless\u2019 AI development<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/11\/the-guardian-view-on-controlling-ai-humanity-cannot-outsource-its-survival\">Editorial:  controlling AI \u2013 humanity cannot outsource its survival<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/09\/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction\">an existential threat<\/a> to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash. It was only seven days ago that AI enthusiasts were cheerily toying with OpenAI\u2019s newest model GPT-6 Astra which was marketed in part as a lifestyle tool to help people book tennis courts, run fashion companies and order takeaways.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday, cutting-edge AI started to look a lot less appealing when the resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned \u201cthe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade\u201d. Yes, he was talking about artificial superintelligence \u2013 an as-yet-nonexistent version of the technology that outcompetes humans in most domains \u2013 but his comments, and the chorus of experts that echoed him, jangled plenty of nerves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/13\/too-little-too-late-critics-perplexed-and-suspicious-of-ai-leaders-call-for-a-slowdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4fc80e643187b6b66f98b0e0f64193afdc28f1e\/428_0_3331_2667\/master\/3331.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8300d6891ca5edf4642eeaeeeca4e1bb\" title=\"\u2018Too little, too late\u2019: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders\u2019 call for a slowdown\" \/>From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on \u2018reckless\u2019 AI development<br \/>\nEditorial:  controlling AI \u2013 humanity cannot outsource its survival<\/p>\n<p>The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash. It was only seven days ago that AI enthusiasts were cheerily toying with OpenAI\u2019s newest model GPT-6 Astra which was marketed in part as a lifestyle tool to help people book tennis courts, run fashion companies and order takeaways.<br \/>\nBy Wednesday, cutting-edge AI started to look a lot less appealing when the resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned \u201cthe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade\u201d. Yes, he was talking about artificial superintelligence \u2013 an as-yet-nonexistent version of the technology that outcompetes humans in most domains \u2013 but his comments, and the chorus of experts that echoed him, jangled plenty of nerves. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on \u2018reckless\u2019 AI development Editorial: controlling AI \u2013 humanity cannot outsource its survival The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/too-little-too-late-critics-perplexed-and-suspicious-of-ai-leaders-call-for-a-slowdown\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Too little, too late\u2019: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders\u2019 call for a slowdown<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}