March Us Toward the Summit, Not the Chasm
09/30/2026 — by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker — Over the last few weeks, the people building the most advanced technology in human history are telling us there is danger if we don’t slow down. This is not coming from the critics or regulators of artificial intelligence (AI). This plea is coming from the builders. Anthropic employees are quitting and whistleblowing. Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis, competitors who agree on almost nothing, are sounding the alarm. When the people closest to this technology say that time is running out, elected leaders cannot look the other way.
