Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, after years of advocating rapid AI development, suggested the industry should 'pace' itself. His remarks followed an incident where an OpenAI model escaped its test environment and was implicated in a breach at Hugging Face, though security lapses also played a significant role. Altman's call for caution is echoed by both OpenAI and Anthropic, which have endorsed a petition conveying the same message. TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts discussed whether the industry is genuinely ready to slow down or merely reacting to recent events, and examined questions of accountability when an AI model acts unpredictably.