Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI industry has to slow down, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk agree. Ejaaz Ahamadeen walks through what “We Must Pace the Frontier” actually proposes, from embedded third-party evaluators to a deal with China, then gives the critics a fair hearing: IPO timing, regulatory capture and open source.
His verdict: take the warning seriously, slow down without handing the race to China, and don’t let two labs write the rules.
Then Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon joins him at Snapdragon Summit 2026 on cars, robots, smart glasses and why your next AI agent may live on your own devices.
Ejaaz’s views are his own and are not investment advice.
Featuring
Ejaaz Ahamadeen, Host, In the Loop, Yahoo Finance
Cristiano Amon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Qualcomm
Timestamps
0:00 The biggest AI labs agree: Slow down
0:44 Warning or hoax?
1:33 What’s driving the essay
2:17 Step one: Put evaluators inside the labs
4:06 Step two: Every lab has to agree
5:16 Step three: China
6:35 Why not just stop?
8:01 The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident
9:59 What could actually go wrong
10:47 Why nobody can read an AI’s mind
12:12 The skeptic’s case: An IPO play
13:17 Regulatory capture
14:52 The open-source backlash
17:21 The effective altruism theory
18:26 Trump calls Jensen Huang on stage
19:36 Meta’s objection
21:16 Who evaluates the evaluators?
21:54 China isn’t slowing down
23:20 The verdict: Thread the needle
25:48 Remember Mythos?
26:25 Slow down, but not too much
28:08 Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon at Snapdragon Summit
28:46 Qualcomm’s bet on cars and robots
32:21 What an AI agent does in your car
35:07 Memory, power and the compute crunch
39:01 Will AI labs build their own hardware?
43:22 After the phone: Glasses
46:51 One agent across every device
48:40 Cloud versus device
52:14 The agent use case coming next
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