In January 2023, people inside major AI labs contacted the Center for Humane Technology, expressing concerns that the AI arms race was out of control.

In 2023, almost everybody in AI signed an open letter warning that the extinction risk from AI was real and serious.

In March 2023, over a thousand leading AI experts, including Elon Musk, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, called for AI labs to "immediately pause for at least six months."