Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and former DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposals. They agreed on the need for independent oversight inside AI labs. Altman and Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development, and Musk's support is unsurprising because he has warned about AI risks for years. Altman also told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public this year, citing safety concerns, after sharing that decision internally in June. The article notes another possible reading: OpenAI's financial position may not support an IPO now, especially compared with Anthropic's, and both explanations could be true. Google researcher Peyman Milanfar disagreed, arguing that recursive self-improvement is a naive assumption because its feedback loops are inherently unstable. Milanfar said that systems optimizing themselves fall deeper into blind spots, and that reliable evidence comes only from the real world rather than benchmarks, making Amodei's proposed speed limit unnecessary. He argued that systems that reliably improve themselves will be governed, damped, slow, and bounded by margins that seem wasteful, because stability is the speed limit.
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