1. Pausing until we had a much firmer idea of how to make AI safe—and well-aligned with human values—might well be a good idea. but 2. I tru…

1. Pausing until we had a much firmer idea of how to make AI safe—and well-aligned with human values—might well be a good idea. but 2. I trust neither of these companies, but fear that both will say “what about China”, if push comes to shove, and never actually agree to pause. So it comes off to me as pre-IPO marketing, in effort to address public backlash. Both Anthropic and OpenAI mention the possibilities of slowing AI development in their latest "what comes next" in AI posts, but say they need to be an action coordinated across the entire world using as-yet-unidentified methods.

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-09