Sam Altman and Dario Amodei’s call to slowdown AI development has sparked employee tensions inside the two companies over …
High-profile pledges by the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development have triggered widespread internal friction, as staff members raise alarms over cybersecurity, proprietary secrets and day-to-day operations. According to a report by The Financial Times, the internal pushback suggests logistical hurdles of transforming public rhetoric into practical engineering workflows. The report says that employees at the development hubs behind ChatGPT and Claude are scrambling to interpret directives from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who urged a deceleration in model development following dire warnings from industry researchers.
