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Sam Altman: OpenAI won’t wait for Congress to slow AI down

Summary

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has set out how he thinks the AI industry should slow down. He also said OpenAI will not wait for Congress to act. In a post on X early on Monday, he welcomed “a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI”. He added a condition. “But we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence,” he wrote. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz described the posts as Altman’s most detailed comments yet on how AI safety frameworks could work. On Saturday, Altman had backed Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier”. Amodei had asked Washington for an antitrust waiver, so AI companies could coordinate a slowdown without legal risk.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman backed an AI slowdown on Saturday. Now he says the public should be able to put their faith in AI firms to act responsibly without strings attached.

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Bloomberg

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman ‘Confident’ Industry Can Police AI Safety

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Fortune

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