Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue
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Sam Altman renewed his call for pacing AI development while making clear that pacing does not mean stopping. He advocates a uniform, nationwide safety framework for advanced AI, but says the industry should not wait for lawmakers and that international coordination would need U.S. government support. OpenAI has introduced explicit safety protocols before training runs that could lead to major capability jumps. Altman hopes other companies will learn from OpenAI's approaches and propose their own. He said progress will continue to be rapid, though not as fast as it could be. He argued that pacing is worth the cost and that no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, former DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk all backed better-controlled AI development. According to The Information, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been talking for months about self-regulation through an independent oversight body, while smaller players like Cohere worry this could turn into a cartel.
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