Palo Alto CEO says slowing down AI is ‘unrealistic’, extinction threat ‘extremely small’
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Source: CNBC TechnologySeptember 24, 2026
Summary
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora stated that slowing down AI development is impractical and that the risk of AI causing human extinction is very low. His position aligns with Nvidia's CEO but differs from the leaders of Anthropic and OpenAI, who have expressed more caution about AI safety risks.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24//palo-alto-networks-nikesh-arora-ai-slowdown.html
First tracked: September 24, 2026 at 08:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 72%