AI leaders push to slow development amid dire warnings

Now to what, I think is probably going to be the biggest story of the week . I Cara, our producer , I was telling you last week . I said, "People are going to be talking about this come this week and over the weekend Kind of hit a fever pitch . We're talking about artificial intelligence and how some people inside the AI industry itself are now responding to some of those concerns and a new push from some of the biggest leaders in the AI industry to slow things down when it comes to developing this new technology . It comes after an apocalyptic type warning from a former Anthropic worker . Let's get more now from Marion Favreau . New AI concern spurred by a viral social media post from Jacob Coxen , a former employee at leading AI firm Anthropic , who warned that the rapid development of AI could lead to the extinction of humankind by the end of the decade . In an interview with Meet the Press today, Coxen reiterated his concerns . You're building a human-level or superhuman-level mind without understanding what it wants or or thinks or the way it thinks . And I think that intrinsically should be quite scary . In an interview with Fortune magazine Saturday , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the San Francisco AI giant will not go public this year . We understand the magnitude of the responsibility on us . We understand what could go wrong and that there are decisions that and risks . There are decisions we should not be able to make . There are risks we should not be able to incur on behalf of humanity . And Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, writing in a new essay , "We must slow the pace at which we've improved the capabilities of AI models." He expanded on that warning in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning