Musk Says Slow Down the Smartest AI

Elon Musk backed Anthropic boss Dario Amodei's call for AI companies to deliberately slow work on the most advanced AI, posting “Dario is right” Sept. 12, 2026. Anthropic warned of fast progress and AI learning to improve itself, per the Wall Street Journal. For savers, a voluntary pause is hard to police, so markets likely still expect continued AI spending.