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BBC News and The Guardian reported on September 12 that Dario Amodei, CEO of leading AI company Anthropic, publicly called for AI developers worldwide to voluntarily slow the pace of frontier model research and deployment. He warned that the industry’s race-style expansion carries uncontrollable risks and emphasized that both regulators and companies must establish deceleration mechanisms at a broader scale. This rare public appeal from a leading AI company CEO has drawn significant global attention from the tech community, regulators, and capital markets.

An in-depth New York Times investigation published September 12 found that internal conversations about artificial general intelligence loss-of-control and human extinction scenarios have significantly intensified inside leading US AI companies in recent months, expanding from small safety research teams into product teams and board-level discussions at multiple firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Citing more than ten current and former executives, researchers, and government officials, the report indicates that this anxiety has grown exponentially over the past three months and has entered public view through resignation letters, academic papers, and media interviews, marking what industry insiders describe as the first time AI panic has spread at a pace approaching a mainstream public topic.

The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman officially begins in court. Musk’s lawyer alleges Altman profited from ‘related party conflicted transactions’ and identifies the October 2022 Microsoft deal as the turning point when OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission.