Is an AI slowdown our next nuclear-free moment?

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Sep 17, 202622:59News & Politics

Should we put the brakes on AI? Well, the bosses of some of the world's largest AI companies say we should. Sam Altman and Elon Musk have both backed head of Anthropic Dario Amodei after he came out and said we need to s...

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