Tech Brew Ride Home · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Employees at OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly felt blindsided by their CEOs' public calls to slow down the pace of AI development, according to sources. Staff members expressed concerns that implementing such proposals, including embedding external evaluators, could compromise internal security and jeopardize their work.
“Sources are telling the FT that Open AI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei and Sam Altman's recent calls to slow the frontier.”
“Staff at the makers of Claude and Chat GPT are rushing to implement recommendations from their respective chief executives, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, to slow AI rate of progress to avert disastrous consequences following a series of dire warnings from researchers.”
“Staff inside OpenAI and Anthropic as well as the safety researchers they would rely on to conduct this work were blindsided by the weekend's announcements.”