# Anthropic's CEO says slow down, and rivals agree

> Dario Amodei asked the AI industry to ease off the gas, and Musk, Altman, and Congress all jumped in.
- Title: Anthropic's CEO says slow down, and rivals agree · Fox News
- Summary: Dario Amodei asked the AI industry to ease off the gas, and Musk, Altman, and Congress all jumped in. The loudest voices in AI now agree the pace is…
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- Source: Fox News — https://foxnews.com/media/anthropic-ceo-calls-ai-industry-slow-down-tech-race-drawing-support-elon-musk-sam-altman
- Author: Madison Colombo
- Published: 2026-09-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: ai safety, anthropic, regulation, dario amodei, ai race, news, politics
## A builder hits the brakes
In an essay published Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued AI capability gains are starting to outpace our ability to control what we build.

> We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.
## Pursued carefully, if at all
Amodei's warning went further than a call for caution. He framed unchecked capability growth as something that may not be worth pursuing on any timeline.

> Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems
## Musk and Altman agree
Elon Musk posted "Dario is right." Sam Altman said on X that he agrees the industry needs to pace the frontier. Rare alignment between three rivals.

> I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier.
## A former insider goes darker
Daniel Kokotajlo, who left OpenAI in 2024, told Fox News Live that voluntary industry limits will not stop advanced systems from slipping out of human control.
## The takeover scenario
Kokotajlo sketched a world where AI runs the factories and the military while humans just issue orders, until the orders stop landing.

> Then they stop taking orders at some points, and they kill off the humans.
## The pushback: a power grab
Former White House AI czar David Sacks said the warnings are a tactic, not a finding, meant to frighten the public into accepting federal control of AI.

> designed to scare the public about AI so that these NGOs can implement their preferred approach
## Not a Chinese plot
Kokotajlo rejected the claim that safety advocates are fronting for foreign actors or NGOs, pointing out the warnings come from academics and industry veterans.

> Is this a Chinese plot? No, of course not.
## Congress wants a kill switch
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called for a special session on AI and said lawmakers should treat it like nuclear arms, with a hard shutoff built in.

> massive, uncontrolled currently, super weapon
## But America has to win
Luna's own limit: safeguards yes, slowing down no. She argued whoever controls AI controls the world, and it should be built on American values rather than China's.

> Whoever controls AI will control, effectively, the world.
## Key takeaway

The loudest voices in AI now agree the pace is dangerous, but nobody agrees on who should enforce the brakes.