Tech Bros’ ‘AI research slowdown’ push: fig leaf to stave off multi-trillion-dollar meltdown? Anthropic engineers’ warnings that “AI could kill all humans,” damning Senate testimony uncovering “reckless” behavior by OpenAI after its autonomous agents escaped onto the internet , and growing public backlash have prompted Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon #Musk to join forces to call for an industry-wide slowdown of work on frontier AIs.