New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate - ABC News

• Donald Trump downplayed warnings about artificial intelligence risks, claiming that negative forces are voicing concerns about events that will not occur. • Trump told ABC's This Week that the U.S. should slow the pace of development to protect citizens and ensure the technology proceeds safely.

• AI executives Sam Altman and Dario Amodei publicly called for a slowdown in the development of new artificial intelligence systems this week. • These warnings follow a broader trend of researchers urging caution regarding the speed of technology deployment.

• Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the second session of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on Sunday. • President Xi delivered a speech during the session to address the member nations.

• Asian technology stocks fell recently as investors questioned the sustainability of the artificial intelligence trade ahead of policy decisions from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei contributed to the decline by calling for a slowdown in the development of powerful AI models to prioritize safety.

• Moody's Analytics reports that the artificial intelligence boom is acting as an economic cushion for Southeast Asia against risks from tariffs, weather, and energy. • Foreign direct investment is increasing in Malaysia and Vietnam as investors fund data center build-outs, though Singapore still holds the bulk of announced greenfield projects.

• Two political figures from opposing backgrounds criticized President Lee Jae-myung’s government on September 13. • The criticism was reported by members of the Asia Journalist Association and THE AsiaN.

• Singapore has captured the vast majority of robotics equity funding in Southeast Asia, which totals $1.1 billion across 51 funded companies. • Singapore accounts for 91.7 percent of the region's total funding, with $986 million raised across 58 rounds for 37 funded companies.

• Twenty-four Indian startups across various sectors raised more than $412.81 million in funding between September 7 and September 12, 2026. • Spacetech startup Pixxel led the group by securing $100 million in a Series C round from Temasek and Seraphim Space.

• The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk's AI company publicly agreed to slow down the development of artificial intelligence on Saturday, September 12, 2026. • This agreement marks the first time the leaders of the three most powerful AI companies in the Western world have aligned on a strategy to decelerate the AI race.

• President Trump downplayed warnings about artificial intelligence risks, claiming that negative forces are voicing concerns about events that will not occur. • Trump told ABC's This Week that the U.S. should slow the pace of development to protect the American people and ensure the technology proceeds safely.

• Chip Huyen is sharing strategies to reduce AI inference costs, which are the expenses associated with running a trained model to generate predictions, ahead of her P99 CONF appearance on October 21–22. • She recommends using continuous batching to prevent hardware slots from sitting idle while waiting for the slowest request in a group to finish.