OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, joined the call made by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, at a time when the company is facing serious difficulties in maintaining its growth pace. Altman publicly declared OpenAI's commitment to external audits and to a slowdown in frontier technology development, implicitly acknowledging the risks associated with the accelerated expansion of artificial intelligence.
The American tech giant is hitting the so-called physical barriers of technological expansion. These limitations include concrete infrastructure problems, such as the shortage of specialized chips and the limited capacity of data centers, which have hindered the training of increasingly powerful models.
The sector is facing a significant operational cost crisis. The investments necessary to remain competitive in the AI race have been enormous, with expenses including energy, specialized hardware, and highly skilled human talent. This reality has forced the main companies in the sector to rethink their growth strategies.
This joint call between Altman and Amodei marks a rare moment in the technology sector, as the two CEOs of competing companies are aligned in the message that it is necessary to slow down and ensure greater safety in the development of artificial intelligence, even if it means sacrificing expansion speed.
