San Francisco, Sept. 13 -- Following public resignations of researchers fearing that AI labs are racing to build uncontrollable systems, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has advocated for an industry-wide slowdown and third-party evaluations. These safety announcements have immediately drawn high-profile responses from top tech executives and senior lawmakers.

Weighing in on the evolving discourse surrounding frontier technology, Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, stated on X, "Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment. This is also why we recently put out our proposal for an i...