The Heads of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI Agree AI Is Moving Too Fast and Ask Governments to Help Them "Pace the Frontier" — Sanders Says "You Hit the Brakes," the Speaker Says "We Cannot Put a Moratorium on This Because China Will Overlap Us," and Trump Blames "Negative Forces"

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I would love to mark it up this month, if we can get bipartisan agreement. We're making progress. The negotiations are ongoing. We're not there yet, but I think we're making meaningful progress.

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We think it's part of the equation, we don't think it's the whole story. It's getting the federal government to start playing a larger role and being more prepared and understanding the risk assessment landscape and what the federal government should be doing in that environment.

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This bill is focused on getting approvals, presenting your models to government experts, [and] alerting of imminent harm, like we've seen recently. I continue to believe we could get this done. We'd have to put forward the bill, and get support. … Because it is targeted at these immediate risks, it is something we could proceed on sooner rather than later.

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They can self-police, they can self regulate. They don't need the government to tell them to slow it down.

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I'm not going to have AI control your airplane. There are tools that they can use and tools that'll make their lives way easier and way safer.

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I disagree with him completely. Come on, it's not a hoax. It's a real thing.

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If Congress is not equipped, then throw the bums out and bring in some new people who are.

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I don't see a solution to the point that it's going to have a vote.

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We should not leave for November without passing AI legislation.

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The only control or "guardrails" that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI "people" from doing bad, or potentially bad, "things," like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a "perfect little angel" – and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!

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Personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse. … It's something that we're concerned by, but we want to make sure that we actually regulate smartly. And we're thoughtful about the risk here.

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You don't want to stifle innovation but you also want to make sure that the more advanced threats can be mitigated. … [Put guardrails around it, but] I think you want to do it in a light-touch way that doesn't squash innovation.

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[Congress should] not leave town until something is done decisively to protect the safety and the well-being of the American people.

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[I expect the president to summon AI platform leaders for a] deliberate discussion about the responsibility of the companies to maintain safety and what role, if any, the government has to play in that. … [We need to] go in a big room, close the door and sort this out.

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Warning bells are ringing louder than they ever have – and the Trump administration is looking the other way. Well, if they won't hold themselves accountable, we will. And if Trump does not act, Congress must.

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[It is going to be] really tough [for Congress to act expeditiously on AI. Lawmakers have been] totally AWOL on this.

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It's your responsibility as a business to do the responsible thing. Don't make a product that destroys the world.

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We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way. Whoever wins AI wins. … I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen.

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We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us. That's the challenge. … If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American. … There is an obvious corporate responsibility that the people who are creating these models have to have to ensure that their products are safe.

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We should take decisive action now so that we can slow down, as the CEOs have recently acknowledged, slow down the pace of development in order to protect the American people. … [Democrats will] move urgently on this issue with a legislative response that recognizes the importance of American companies continuing to lead in the Artificial Intelligence area, while putting in place meaningful guardrails.

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I have concerns that if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in a very bad position. We are leading China right now. … [The] far bigger risk [is that] a malevolent actor has access to an AI that's better than the one we have that can protect us.

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There need to be safeguards. There need to be rules. There need to be limits. … [Asked whether AI poses a threat:] Of course. And so do the people in charge of it.

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Well, a much bigger role than the role that they're actually playing. I don't think the speaker has to worry at all about Congress not acting. … The people that know the most about this are the most concerned right now. … I'm not saying a moratorium. I'm not saying shutting things down. Government doesn't get this right often either, but we should be at the table working together, and that's what we've done in Utah.

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This technology is powerful, with great potential to do good, and yet it comes with extraordinary risk. … [These warnings are a] bright red flashing light telling the President and Congress they need to act now to regulate and rein in AI development. … Its development should not be steered exclusively by private entities, especially when the CEOs of those companies are calling out for restraint and regulation. It's long past time for our federal government to step up, take this seriously, and put up some guardrails — both here at home and on the global stage.

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My experience as Intel Chairman taught me the time to stop a crisis is yesterday.

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I am still studying this but it's a reasonable start, and takes seriously the proposition that we need real proposals that can be enacted rapidly.

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Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman now agree that we must slow down the development of AI and 'pace the frontier.' That's a start, but it's not enough. When you are racing towards a cliff, you don't just ease up on the gas pedal. You hit the brakes. When the future of humanity is at stake we need a PAUSE on advanced AI development and a ban on artificial superintelligence.

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Dear @DarioAmodei, Thanks for your leadership on AI safety. Giving access to third-party evaluators is a good step forward. However, this will have limited effect if you can't control your models. Will you certify you can turn off your models and agents, now and in the future?

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Dario Amodei put out a video today about steps Anthropic was going to take to keep us all safe, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. … We need to stop, ban self-improving AI. You cannot have recursive self-improving AI that basically is able to improve itself and exceed human capability that has us lose control. … We need mandatory liability and criminal penalties.

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The U.S. should lead a coordinated international effort to establish a global framework to guide the development of this technology.

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When the biggest AI developers all agree they should slow down, they should. Less blog posts and reports. The time for federal action is now.