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Warnings from researchers in recent weeks about potential risks posed by the technology escalated the debate about AI safety, with some industry executives calling for a slowdown in developing models.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“In practice, there is no coherent, rational slowdown plan to be considered,” Ben Goertzel, the founder of SingularityNET, said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

While these fears go back decades, claims made last week by Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee, went viral and were echoed by others in the sector who urged a slowdown in development.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Citing brief statements of agreement from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, Axios headlined the story “Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI development.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The ripple of the slowdown thudded back through the cars to the tail of the train.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

They’ve repeatedly urged coordinated industrywide slowdowns in development but never acted upon them.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

In an article published on 6 September, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called for the industry to implement "voluntary slowdowns" until safeguards are set.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

But the risk is that someone looking at a P/E ratio may not see as much downside risk as there actually is, he added, because profit margins “tend to compress sharply” during slowdowns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

The statistical results also identified a cluster of evolutionary slowdowns around 15 million years ago, which coincided with another major geological event.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Solution: investment in machinery that moved slaughtered livestock from one place to the next, eliminating slowdowns.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield