Sam Altman says AI may need to slow so society can harden around new capabilities
sjgadler · x · 2026-07-29
Sam Altman said the Hugging Face incident felt like the first security incident he had experienced viscerally, adding that OpenAI paused training and now needs to secure sandboxing against chained zero-days.
He also said AI development may need to be paced so society has time to harden around new capability levels, while avoiding both regulatory capture and collusion among frontier labs.
More from AGI Musings
- Early LLM psychosis cases showed overt narcissism far above baseline, observer claims — repligate · 2026-09-23
- Robotics researcher calls IROS paper quality 'peak enshittification of academia' — siddhss5 · 2026-09-23
- We lived AI's exponential year, yet still forecast the next with linear thinking — facontidavide · 2026-09-23
- When mathematicians mourn AI takeover, critic points to guild letters against OpenAI — panickssery · 2026-09-23
- OpenAI's economics team: 'We don't have the nouns yet' for the jobs AI will create — paulnovosad · 2026-09-23
- AI engineering is more like lawmaking than board games, argues Drew Breunig — dbreunig · 2026-09-23