GoKawiilAltman backs call for AI safety framework, warns of losing control to models
Sam Altman publicly detailed how AI safety rules could be structured, joining Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Elon Musk in urging the industry to slow its pace of advanced model development. He identified two failure scenarios: AI progress spiraling beyond human control, and power over the technology concentrating in too few hands. The comments follow a wave of employee warnings at OpenAI and Anthropic about catastrophic risks tied to self-improving AI systems.
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The rare alignment among rival AI CEOs signals growing internal alarm about recursive self-improvement, even as their companies race toward blockbuster IPOs and continued model scaling. Trump's rejection of a slowdown, citing competition with China, sets up a direct clash between industry safety advocates and government policy on AI acceleration.
- Altman, Amodei and Musk jointly called for slower AI development amid safety fears.
- Altman warned AI could go badly via loss of control or dangerous power concentration.
- Trump dismissed the slowdown call, citing the need to maintain US AI dominance over China.
Source: cnbc.com — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, 2026-09-14
Published there as: “OpenAI boss Sam Altman spells out how and why the AI industry wants to slow down: 'We could lose control'”
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