Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic Leadership Call for AI Development Slowdown as EU Tech Chief Says Bloc Can Handle Rogue AI Risk

As artificial intelligence focused executives, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Anthropic ’s leadership, have pressed world governments to approach the accelerating pace of AI development with greater restraint and foresight, a senior European official has expressed confidence that existing continental regulations can manage the risks of uncontrolled AI systems. This assessment arrives against a backdrop of intensifying appeals for a more measured approach to AI advancement. In an interview with Reuters published on October 9, 2026, Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission ’s Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, stated that the European Union’s framework for governing artificial…

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