Von der Leyen to invite AI leaders to ‘support’ efforts to ‘pace the frontier’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to invite the main artificial intelligence companies to discuss industry efforts to impose a slowdown of AI development, she will say in her State of the European Union speech on Wednesday. "I will invite the main frontier labs for a discussion on how we can support ongoing industry efforts to pace the frontier," she is set to say based on a draft of her State of the European Union seen by POLITICO. Von der Leyen will acknowledge the warnings by several top tech bosses in the past week "to pace the frontier." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for a slowdown , quickly getting the backing of the CEO of xAI Elon Musk and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.