What Altman, Amodei, Huang and Zuckerberg are saying about the raging AI debate

What Altman, Amodei, Huang and Zuckerberg are saying about the raging AI debate What Altman, Amodei, Huang and Zuckerberg are saying about the raging AI debate OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, sits with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for a conversation at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on September 15, 2026 in San Francisco, California. A product conference at software giant Salesforce turned into the battleground on the new debate on whether there should be a slowdown in artificial intelligence. The Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco featured leading executives including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Nvidia Under the gentle questioning of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Amodei made an analogy.

And another car company, not yours, has some kind of safety incident. Something goes wrong with the brakes, something with the manufacturing… Now, you believe you have the best safety record in the industry. What do you do, how do you approach it?” Amodei said the three-step plan he has is first to improve processes at his own company, then to set industry standards and then have an international component to it.

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I can unsubscribe at any time. Altman, in a separate Q&A with Benioff, said the why-now is that in some ways the models are now smarter than people. The two worries, he added, are both a loss-of-control type accident as well as a concentration in power.

Huang, in his trademark leather jacket, said safety is paramount but an engineering problem. We don’t need new regulations,” he added. We didn’t call for everyone else to do this before we would.

We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I’m proud of the security foundations we’ve built.” , it rolled out a reasoning model called Koa based on Nvidia’s open-source Nemotron model and trained on synthetic data. on Tuesday rose 0.3% after a 5.6% slide on Monday, while the software ETF had the reverse move, falling 1% on Tuesday after a 5% gain on Monday. In early Wednesday premarket trade, the chip ETF rose another 1% while the software ETF retreated by 1%.