AI needs a full stop, not a slowdown

Parmy Olson argues in Bloomberg Opinion that calls to “pace” frontier AI are insufficient for existential risks, questioning Anthropic’s safety‑first stance amid competitive development and suggesting independent evaluations could improve oversight without necessarily slowing progress toward superintelligence.

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