Sam Altman wants to slow AI progress but only a little
openai ceo sam altman calls for pacing ai development with safety protocols, but promises rapid progress will continue, affecting the entire industry.
sam altman, ceo of openai, is advocating for a balanced approach to ai development, suggesting that the industry should slow down enough to implement safety protocols but not halt progress entirely. openai has started setting explicit safety protocols before training runs that could lead to major capability jumps. altman hopes other companies will follow suit with their own approaches. this call for pacing comes as other industry leaders, including anthropic ceo dario amodei, former deepmind ceo demis hassabis, microsoft ceo satya nadella, and elon musk, have also backed better-controlled ai development. discussions have been ongoing between openai, anthropic, and google about self-regulation through an independent oversight body.