Washington: US Senator Bernie Sanders has called on President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate a treaty that would pause the development of advanced artificial intelligence and ban the creation of “superintelligence”.
The company’s CEO said the need to control the pace of AI development has become a major subject of talks at the company in recent weeks. We’ll have more to share soon,” he said. He made the appeal after three leading AI industry leaders raised worries over the speed at which the technology is developing. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently warned about the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed his call for a slower pace, while xAI chief Elon Musk also agreed with Amodei. He called for Trump and Xi to use their upcoming AI summit to negotiate an international treaty on the development of advanced artificial intelligence. His proposal comes at a time when the United States and China are competing heavily in artificial intelligence, with major technology companies in both countries working to build capable AI systems. Altman’s response shows that OpenAI has also been looking at the issue in recent weeks. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we’ve had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same.
