Anthropic could single-handedly force a pause among all major AI companies by joining in. It would lend an incredible amount of credibility to the OpenAI pause. Any other company who didn’t join would be hated, and possibly coerced by governments.
Luckily, that is in motion https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/29/openai-anthropic-endorse-call-government-pace-ai-progress/
Anthropic could single-handedly force a pause among all major AI companies by joining in. It would lend an incredible amount of credibility to the OpenAI pause. Any other company who didn’t join would be hated, and possibly coerced by governments.
Luckily, that is in motion https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/29/openai-anthropic-endorse-call-government-pace-ai-progress/