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AI CEOs Want to Slow Down. The AI Race Won’t.
AI’s biggest players want to slow down the AI race. But there’s one problem: nobody wants to lose.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for the AI industry to “pace the frontier,” arguing that AI capabilities are advancing faster than safety research can keep up.
At the same time, the U.S. and China are competing for technological leadership, investors want companies to keep building, and AI infrastructure is expanding at a massive pace.
So what would an AI slowdown actually look like? And can the world coordinate on AI safety when every major player has an incentive to keep moving?
In this episode of The Daily Carnage Show, Shannon breaks down the growing debate over AI safety, recursive self-improvement, the U.S.-China AI race, AI regulation, and the geopolitical stakes of slowing down frontier AI.
What do you think: Can the world actually slow down AI development together, or is the AI race impossible to stop? Drop your take in the comments.
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What We Learned
Monday: As AI features become standard across software, simply calling something “AI-powered” isn’t enough to make a launch stand out. A stronger go-to-market strategy starts with the customer: clearly showing what problem the feature solves, building trust around how it works, and making its value easy to understand and adopt.
