“ As frontier AI development continues, we expect national and global coordination to become more important. We have long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. Cooperation and shared safety standards are an important part of the path forward, especially because the incentives around commercial and national competition are hard to escape. One goal of such an organization should be to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed, so societal resilience, safety, and alignment can keep pace. OpenAI (Altman, Pachocki) https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/

‘“If we can, maybe it would be good to have a slightly slower pace than we’re currently predicting,” Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis said, “so that we can get this right societally.” Anthropic’s Dario Amodei agreed: “I would prefer that. I think that would be better for the world.” Even JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon — hardly an AI doomer — suggested that the rollout of AI might need to be slowed down to “save society” from huge civil unrest.

In another panel, Hassabis went even further. Asked whether he would advocate for a pause in AI development if every company and country joined in, his response was simple: “I think so.”

But while Hassabis and Amodei admitted that a slowdown would be preferable, they also insisted that they can’t do it alone. Such a pause would require “international collaboration,” Hassabis said, with Amodei noting that “it’s very hard to have an enforceable agreement where they slow down and we slow down.”‘

Transformer reporting from Davos 2026 (January) https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-ceos-want-to-slow-down-the-worlds-davos-demis-hassabis-dario-amodei https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/the-day-after-agi/ (Video)

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. The Anthropic Institute will conduct research—in collaboration with many others—and take actions to help build the systems that a credible slowdown or pause would require. These systems would enable frontier AI developers to verify that others globally have actually stopped or slowed, and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret. If such systems existed, we expect that we would slow down or temporarily pause, if other developers at or near the frontier also did so in a verifiable manner.” Anthropic Institute, June 2026.

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement