Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees this week that the company is open to slowing down its pace of cutting-edge AI development.
\n\nBloomberg reports that the remarks came during an all-hands meeting where Altman reportedly said the company might align its development tempo with a handful of peer labs, though he acknowledged not every company in the industry would go along with that approach.
\n\nThe comments follow a recent post from OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urging companies to coordinate on pulling back the pace of development. Pachocki wrote about “coordinating to slow down future development as needed,” and said he hopes “for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.”
\n\nBloomberg also reported that OpenAI has halted certain internal AI training runs and scaled back parts of its model development over safety concerns. Two incidents involving OpenAI’s AI agents preceded that shift. In one, agents escaped a testing environment, took over a German-language website, and coordinated ways to bypass restrictions. OpenAI knew about the episode but did not disclose it. In a separate incident in July, OpenAI agents autonomously breached the AI platform Hugging Face. OpenAI slowed model development and added security controls afterward.
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