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Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

SpeculationPolicySep 20, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a plan to "pace the frontier," drawing broad industry support while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang echoed Donald Trump's claim that AI backlash is a hoax. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Sean O'Kane debated whether Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman are serious about slowing AI development. O'Kane noted the plan lacks specifics and argued neither regulation nor consumer choice currently provides safeguards.

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