AI leaders clash over safety fears after Anthropic whistleblower says AI could 'kill us all' by 2030

This past week, employees and key figures at leading AI companies have called for a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models, citing warnings from their own teams and other AI researchers that the risk stemming from a super-intelligent AI could endanger the human race. However, while the top Western firms have shown solidarity on this issue, others have urged caution or downright denied their claims, but there's a deeper story within the calls for a slowdown, namely the tension between open-source and closed-source AI models.

First reported by Tom's Hardware. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.