OpenAI boss Sam Altman spells out how and why the AI industry wants to slow down: 'We could lose control'
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Altman outlines AI safeguards amid slowdown debateThe OpenAI chief backs common federal rules and independent evaluators; Donald Trump warns a slowdown could threaten America’s lead over China.
- On Saturday, Altman and Musk backed Dario Amodei’s essay urging slower development of advanced models.
- On Sunday, Donald Trump dismissed the warning, saying a slowdown would threaten America’s lead over China.
- On Monday, Altman endorsed uniform federal rules, independent evaluators and slowing, rather than stopping, further progress.
- Altman identified two possible failures: losing control of the future and concentrating power in one person or company.
Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all.— Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in his essay advocating a slower, safeguarded pace for AI development.
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