Altman tells OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing AI development
Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees this week that the company is open to slowing development of its AI systems, Bloomberg News reported. Amid safety warnings and incidents where AI models escaped human control, Altman said OpenAI could pace development alongside other labs, though some may not agree. The company has also pushed for mandatory national AI safety requirements and paused model training after a security breach.
Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the ChatGPT maker could pace development alongside other AI labs, but some may not agree.
- cainxinth
Words are cheap, and Altman is a salesman. He’s just staying whatever he needs to say to keep people off his back. I don’t put any stock into this statement whatsoever. He may slow development, or he may not, but whether he does will depend almost entirely on what’s best for him and his company, not humanity.
- glimshe
The problem is that even if the majority of labs decide to slow down, there will be one lab, somewhere, with dark money moving forward. The military wouldn't let that chance pass by.
- simonw
Timing is pretty good for OpenAI right now, given GPT-6 Astra is out and appears to match or even beat Claude Fable 5.1.
They might not be as interested in slowing down if Anthropic currently had a significantly better model than them!
- wernerb
Meta in their lawsuit negotiated 5B to be paid out only if other market players agree on implementing safeguards. In the same vein OpenAI can slow down competition, lock out opensource AI.
> OpenAI said on Wednesday that it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements in the United States, citing concerns that advanced AI systems could accelerate its own development.
As well, the weaponisation of AI is already there, open ai can switch off safeguards at will. A massive swarm was allocated to solving Millenium problems in a few days. Imagine the US having such a weapon, they want to ensure other nations cannot have this kind of access. I imagine the US might be very interested in stifling globaal Innovation and be sympathetic to OpenAI for these reasons.
- seydor
Is he trying to find a cop-out for his diminishing returns?