Instead, the OpenAI CEO wants companies developing the most advanced AI models to slow the pace enough to ensure that safety and monitoring systems can keep up.
Sam Altman’s call to “pace” the development of artificial intelligence does not mean stopping AI progress, the entrepreneur has said.
He also flagged two major risks of AI — humans losing control of AI and too much power ending up with one person, company or country. The company would continue the safety work it already conducted before releasing models. Altman’s comments followed a detailed call from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow the development of frontier AI models.
This came days after Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for AI companies to “pace the frontier” of increasingly powerful models. He said OpenAI now prepared explicit safety cases before some “frontier reinforcement-learning runs” that are expected to significantly increase a model’s capabilities. Altman said OpenAI supports a federal framework that would establish consistent safety requirements for frontier AI companies in the US. In his essay We Must Pace the Frontier, Amodei said that AI companies needed to give safety systems more time to catch up with rapidly improving capabilities.
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI are competing to develop increasingly powerful AI systems.
Altman then said he agreed with Amodei that the industry needed to “pace the frontier” and indicated that OpenAI would also support independent safety evaluators.
