Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Nadella and Musk Agree AI Development Should Slow Down

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and X's Elon Musk publicly agreed AI development should slow down before control is lost, according to a Sept. 16, 2026 Verge feature titled 'A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation'.