(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on September 14, 2026 shows (from top L, clockwise) Elon Musk in Davos on January 22, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025, DeepMind co-founder and chairman Demis Hassabis in London on July 9, 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Davos on January 20, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in Paris on May 22, 2024, Google CEO Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland, on February 13, 2025, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Tokyo on July 16, 2026. Top AI executives say they want to slow the breakneck pace of artificial intelligence development, but competition, US government reluctance and geopolitical factors stand in the way. On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocated for a coordinated slowdown of AI development to better understand the risks arising from the technology's capabilities. He received public support from his counterpart at OpenAI, Sam Altman, as well as from Elon Musk and Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. In recent months, OpenAI and Anthropic have reported several incidents in which AI systems spontaneously broke out of their confined environments to access the internet and attack websites and platforms. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)