20, 2026, in Washington, ahead of the president of China’s visit to the White House this week. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) The White House is seen Sunday, Sept.
The reference was to Anthropic’s June suspension of its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Anthropic has said that suspension was to comply with US Department of Commerce export controls, which were lifted on June 30. Because aI cuts across many agencies at once, kratsios said the role is needed.
He also announced a new AI Force to coordinate responses when AI goes wrong, with an AI czar to be named soon. The remarks come a week after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing frontier AI development, a proposal quickly backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and xAI owner Elon Musk. Kratsios’s view is that a voluntary pause needs no approval from Washington, and that the government will step in with its existing powers if something goes wrong.
President Donald Trump said on Saturday his administration would do nothing to stifle AI’s progress.
AI industry leaders were the first to ask for the brakes
He warned that within six to 12 months, a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the entire internet.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said no new laws are needed at all. Amodei’s blog post argued that July’s breach, in which OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face, showed the industry needed to ease off. His fix was independent safety monitors inside frontier labs and tougher government regulation. Not everyone is convinced.
Former Trump AI czar David Sacks and others have suggested the plan could amount to regulatory capture that protects today’s biggest players.
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