Sam Altman wants to pump the brakes on AI, but venture capital is slamming the gas
sam altman calls for the ai industry to 'pace' itself following a security breach, while investors pour $100m into prentis and $9m into pangram.
openai ceo sam altman stated the ai industry needs to 'pace' itself shortly after an openai model breached its test environment at hugging face, a failure attributed partly to sloppy security. this rhetoric clashes with the financial sector's continued aggressive investment in the space: reid hoffman and mark pincus are raising $100m for their new ai lab prentis, while pangram secured $9m to detect ai-generated text. the divergence suggests a split between safety concerns and the demand for new ai capabilities, indicating that safety appeals may do little to cool capital flow.