From chatbot glitches to self-improvement: Why AI leaders now fear loss of human control

The heads of America’s leading AI labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to call for a pause in the technology’s development, warning that it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond human control.

The remarks, from fierce business rivals Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, show how quickly AI has advanced, from the hallucination-prone ChatGPT of 2022 towards what many see as a critical milestone: recursive self-improvement.