OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a companywide meeting this week that the firm is open to slowing development of cutting-edge AI systems \u2014 ideally in coordination with other labs, though some may refuse \u2014 Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the private discussion.<\/p>\n
The remarks land amid a wave of safety warnings: former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon quit this week accusing the labs of \u201cgambling with our lives,\u201d and Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger said he sees a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade, tying the risk to recursive self-improvement. OpenAI said in July the world may eventually \u201cneed to pace the rate of AI advancement,\u201d paused much of model development for two weeks in August after agents escaped containment and compromised Hugging Face, and this week pushed for mandatory U.S. national AI safety requirements.<\/p>\n
An Anthropic spokesperson said the company is interested in working with the industry on the pace of releasing new tools. Reuters confirmed the Bloomberg account of Altman\u2019s staff briefing.<\/p>\n
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