{"id":405,"date":"2026-09-16T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/ai-labs-agree-slowdown\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:40:03","slug":"ai-labs-agree-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/ai-labs-agree-slowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Giants Rarely Slow Down Collectively: Why Are OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google All Hitting the Brakes Simultaneously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past week, the AI industry has signaled something rare: leading labs appear to be reaching an unspoken consensus\u2014<strong>slowing down AI development<\/strong>From Obama to Trump, from Nvidia\u2019s CEO to departing researchers, nearly everyone has been drawn into this broad debate over whether AI development should slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Happened<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to TechCrunch,<strong>OpenAI\u3001Anthropic\u3001Google<\/strong> The three tech giants have held ongoing talks about AI safety for several weeks. Obama confirmed on X that he saw \u201cleaders of frontier labs agree to slow down AI development,\u201d calling it \u201ca necessary first step.\u201d He also stressed that AI\u2019s impact \u201cis not overstated,\u201d yet the technology is advancing \u201cso fast that even engineers can\u2019t keep up\u201d\u2014so Washington must deliver concrete laws and regulatory frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More radically, an Anthropic researcher publicly resigned, warning that \u201cself-improving AI\u201d is \u201cbetting with our lives.\u201d Microsoft simultaneously released an AI \u201cCode of Conduct,\u201d explicitly prohibiting models from compromising systems or deceiving humans\u2014a move widely viewed as a complementary self-regulatory action by industry giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strong opposition emerged as well<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not everyone agrees with slowing down. Nvidia CEO <strong>Jensen Huang<\/strong> played Trump\u2019s phone call over the loudspeaker onstage at Dreamforce and declared to the entire audience, \u201cWe will not let this happen.\u201d The Verge raised a sharp question: Is the industry\u2019s \u201cslowdown\u201d truly motivated by safety\u2014or is it a de facto<strong>cartel<\/strong>\u2014collusively slowing progress and raising barriers to exclude latecomers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What This Means for Ordinary Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the short term, users may notice slower flagship model iterations and stricter safety reviews; enterprise adoption, however, continues unabated\u2014Salesforce and Microsoft are still accelerating AI integration into daily workflows. What truly warrants close attention is the boundary of \u201cslowing down\u201d: Is it limited to restricting the public capabilities of frontier models, or does it extend to decelerating AI\u2019s penetration into economic infrastructure? This answer will shape the trajectory of AI applications over the next one to two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This controversy also exposes a deeper divide: Supporters argue that hitting the brakes before models approach the \u201cself-improving\u201d threshold is responsible; opponents fear slowdowns will merely cede leadership advantages to unconstrained competitors. Underlying both positions lies the same unanswered question\u2014should AI safety be governed by corporate self-regulation, government oversight, or market forces?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more AI industry updates and in-depth tool reviews, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/\">AI Dash<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u8fc7\u53bb\u4e00\u5468\uff0cAI \u884c\u4e1a\u51fa\u73b0\u4e86\u4e00\u4e2a\u7f55\u89c1\u4fe1\u53f7\uff1a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidashxp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}