Elon Musk says AI is riskier than nuclear weapons, backs slowdown

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei called for slower AI development over one weekend, sending chip stocks down 5.9% as OpenAI delayed its IPO. Billionaire Elon Musk has thrown his weight behind a call to slow the development of artificial intelligence, reviving his warning that artificial general intelligence carries "significantly higher risk than nuclear weapons" in a weekend that rattled AI stocks worldwide. Musk, who runs Tesla and SpaceX, reshared the April 2023 post on Sept. 12, the same day Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a roughly 3,900-word essay urging the industry to "pace the frontier" so that safety...