Big Tech’s informal agreement to 'pace the frontier' — safety pact or cartel?
According to The Verge AI, leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis and SpaceX’s Elon Musk loosely agreed over a weekend to slow the pace of frontier AI development. Skeptics immediately raised anti-competitive concerns, noting the agreement appeared informal and that some participants signed on only partially.