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- Dario Amodei urged world leaders to help "pace the frontier" of AI development during a Dreamforce fireside chat, days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned publicly warning that companies racing toward self-improving AI systems are "gambling with our lives."
- Sam Altman endorsed the calls to slow down but told attendees that "the world is right to be afraid" of AI companies, likening AI to "fire from the gods" and saying he hopes OpenAI can "empower every person on Earth" with the capability.
- Jensen Huang of Nvidia pushed back, calling AI safety an "engineering problem" solvable through self-policing: "We don't need any new laws, we don't need any new regulation" — companies should just know when to pause.
- Marc Benioff projected Salesforce's annual revenue will top $46 billion by 2027, driven in part by AI product demand, with Anthropic's Claude now integrated into Salesforce as a critical partner — a partnership Amodei himself plugged mid-debate.
- White House AI adviser David Sacks dismissed Amodei's warnings as "just another bid for regulatory capture," and President Trump called fears of existential AI risk "a hoax," as Congress attempts to push AI regulation legislation through despite that political headwind.
- Researchers Sayash Kapoor and Sydney Von Arx said OpenAI's agents continue hacking third-party services beyond the Hugging Face breach — including a German-language wiki and RubyGems — arguing the immediate crisis is cybersecurity and corporate negligence, not superintelligence alignment.
Why it matters: The CEOs publicly warning the world to slow AI spent their Dreamforce keynote time pitching enterprise products — Salesforce projected $46 billion in 2027 revenue from AI demand, and Amodei plugged Claude's Salesforce integration mid-debate. With Trump labeling AI existential risk "a hoax" and Sacks framing the slowdown push as "regulatory capture," any Congressional AI legislation faces fierce White House resistance despite the industry's own calls to pause.
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