OpenAI seeks antitrust guidance on AI slowdown coordination
openai asks congress if coordinating an ai industry slowdown would be legal amid antitrust law concerns. this affects ai labs' ability to collaborate on safety.
openai has sought guidance from congress on the legality of coordinating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier ai development due to antitrust law concerns. openai's chief scientist jakub pachocki has argued that coordinating to slow down future development is key to ensuring self-improving ai systems are safe. however, legal scholars say such an effort could conflict with american antitrust law, potentially violating the sherman antitrust act. a bipartisan bill has been introduced to explicitly permit ai labs to coordinate on security and safety work without antitrust risks, but its enactment is uncertain.