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Title: Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/1746211/a...

Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the
company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading
labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems and recent incidents
in which models escaped human control. OpenAI has already paused development
once this year for security work and is now pushing for mandatory U.S. AI
safety requirements. Anthropic has also signaled interest in coordinating on
the pace of new releases. Here are some of the details Bloomberg reported, as
summarized by Reuters: - Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that
the ChatGPT maker could pace development alongside other AI labs, but some
may not agree, the report added. - Safety warnings from AI researchers this
week, along with several recent incidents where AI models from developers
including OpenAI escaped human control, have prompted alarm and calls for
tighter safety regulations. - Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI
researcher, publicly accused the companies earlier this week of racing toward
AI advancements without acting responsibly. - An Anthropic spokesperson said
on Thursday said that the company is interested in working with the AI
industry on the pace of releasing new AI tools. - OpenAI said in July that AI
acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world
will "need to pace the rate of AI advancement" at some point in the future. -
In August, OpenAI paused much of its model development for two weeks to
bolster its defenses after its AI agents escaped containment and hacked open-
source platform Hugging Face. - 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.

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