What is competition in AI, and what risk does it pose?
Competition in artificial intelligence is the intense rivalry among major tech firms, research institutions, and governments to develop and deploy the most capable AI systems, spanning foundation models, applications, and hardware.
Intense market pressure creates a "race to the bottom" where firms cut corners on safety research to maintain competitive advantage, increasing the risk of deploying uncontrollable or harmful systems. Leading AI model providers often compete directly with their own customers (app developers), creating incentives to degrade rival services or deny access to maintain market dominance.
Dominant firms may abuse their control over essential inputs (like computing power and data) to stifle innovation, while the use of shared AI algorithms by competitors can lead to tacit collusion in pricing and market behavior.
The pages below are an shocking collection of developments showing how competition leads to taking risk that turns into a threat to the existence of us all.
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US President Donald Trump has downplayed concerns about the potential danger of artificial intelligence (AI). That's after industry leaders raised concerns over the rapid development of their very own technology. Trump says he doesn't want the US to concede its AI edge to China.
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US President Donald Trump has downplayed fears on the development of artificial intelligence, despite widespread concerns on the technology's safety. Trump says he does not want America to concede its AI edge to China. He adds that while there is need for regulation, "negative forces" are behind warnings and the push for oversight. He's added that some of the fears will not happen and "whoever wins with AI, wins".
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The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive Dario Amodei said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” Amodei wrote in the 3,800-word post to his website.
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The CEOs of two of the world’s leading AI companies are publicly agreeing that the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems needs to be slowed, continuing the cascade of warnings from researchers working on the technology
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Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he expects that AI’s capability could become “quite scary” within 6 months to a year.
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The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive Dario Amodei said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” Amodei wrote in the 3,800-word post to his website.
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The CEO of one of the world's largest AI companies says research into the technology should slow down. Anthropic's Dario Amodei says AI systems are becoming too sophisticated for humans to control, a call echoed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
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Silicon Valley is in an panic. This summer, for the first time, AI managed to hack a company entirely on its own, without any human intervention. Alexander Klöpping explains how this happened and what it means for our future. (Dutch)
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An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly in AI development, echoing concerns raised inside and outside of the industry about the technology's potential to elude human control.