The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs . Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its use in cyberattacks and bioterrorism to its potential to wreck the economy. The heads of the other three top US AI labs--OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chairman Demis Hassabis, and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk--voiced their support. "Dario is right," Musk wrote on X . Think about how surreal that agreement is for a moment. Just a few months ago, Musk and Altman sat in court attacking each other's reputations in a (failed) lawsuit that Musk brought against his former OpenAI colleague that was--on paper at least--about whether or not Altman was a trustworthy steward of such dangerous technology.