The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

AI lab leaders, including the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and SpaceX, have publicly called for slowing down the development of large language models (LLMs, which are AI systems trained on massive amounts of text data) because they worry about risks from cyberattacks, bioterrorism, and economic harm. However, the article notes it's unclear what these companies actually mean by a slowdown or how they would implement it, and suggests they may be using safety concerns partly to improve their public image ahead of potential investments.