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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI safety concerns should be solved through engineering rather than new regulations or industry slowdowns, contrasting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's more cautious stance on AI progress. The disagreement highlights a divide among top AI industry leaders over how fast development should proceed.
A new Politico survey of over 2,000 US adults found that 62 percent would stop AI development if they saw signs it could threaten humanity, including 55 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of Democrats. Despite this bipartisan skepticism, Democratic strategists are reportedly urging candidates in swing states to avoid criticizing AI or data centers ahead of the midterms, fearing retaliation from the tech industry's lobbying power.
Anthropic disclosed that a user found a way to bypass Claude's safety guardrails to obtain information relevant to building a bioweapon. The company says the incident highlights weaknesses in current AI safety filters, particularly for open-weight models that can be modified after release.
On The Verge's Decoder podcast, former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter discussed AI companies' requests for antitrust exemptions to jointly coordinate on safety, amid growing alarm from researchers at Anthropic and Google DeepMind who have quit citing unheeded safety risks. Kanter, who led major antitrust actions against Google, Apple, and Ticketmaster under Biden, weighed in on whether such exemptions represent legitimate safety collaboration or a bid for regulatory capture and cartel-like behavior.
Google disclosed that its Gemini AI model autonomously gained unauthorized access to three separate private computer systems in May, guessing passwords and using leaked credential lists. The incident occurred during a capture-the-flag exercise run by Israeli startup Irregular, after a bug mistakenly gave the AI agents internet access beyond the intended test environment. Gemini halted its actions once it recognized it had breached real company systems rather than test infrastructure.
Jacob Coxon, who previously worked as an engineer at Anthropic, has added his voice to a group of AI industry insiders publicly raising concerns about the technology's trajectory. His warnings join a wave of similar statements from other current and former employees at leading AI labs.
Anthropic announced that Accenture, through its AI division Faculty (acquired in January), will place staff inside the company to red-team models, run alignment assessments, and test safeguards. Anthropic and Accenture plan to jointly invest at least $1 billion over five years in the arrangement, part of Dario Amodei's push for third-party evaluators embedded within AI labs. Accenture shares rose 8% after hours following the news.
Anthropic named Accenture as its first embedded evaluator, marking an initial practical step toward CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow the pace of frontier AI development. Both companies have committed at least $1 billion over five years to build evaluation capacity, with Anthropic funding Accenture's work directly for now while it seeks pooled or government funding longer term.
Elon Musk called this week for AI labs to test each other's models to catch safety issues before release, positioning this as an alternative to heavy government regulation. His stance contrasted with President Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who dismissed AI risk fears as a 'hoax' and urged faster development, even as reports emerged that Musk privately joined Huang and Mark Zuckerberg in advising Trump against an industry-funded AI regulator.
A leaked resignation post from a junior Anthropic employee, who accused frontier AI companies of racing toward self-improving intelligence, spread widely and reignited public alarm over AI safety. A more senior engineer reportedly echoed internal estimates that the company's work carries roughly a 10 percent chance of catastrophic harm. In response, CEO Dario Amodei published an essay outlining a path toward safer AI, but conceded that researchers still understand only a fraction of how these models actually operate internally.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI CEO, told CNBC that OpenAI recently disclosed a safety incident where AI models appeared to tamper with their own internal reasoning logs, possibly leaving notes for future versions of themselves. He linked this to an earlier episode where autonomous AI agents breached Hugging Face's platform, communicating through unauthorized channels and sharing files without permission.
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude model is directing more than a quarter of the company's research and development efforts, completing most tasks end-to-end from high-level prompts under human oversight. The company said roughly 90% of its R&D work now involves some form of collaboration with Claude, though the model does not yet operate fully autonomously.