Ex-OpenAI advisor Brundage: 4 things AI companies should do now to prepare for a slowdown
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-22
Miles Brundage, former senior advisor at OpenAI, published a new piece in The Guardian. He agrees with the AI company employees behind the "Pacing the Frontier" letter that government should step in—but argues companies could do more on their own right now.
He proposes 4 ways to prepare for a possible slowdown:
- Auditing pilots: auditing each company is key to enforcing a slowdown; companies can pilot that process today.
- Cross-industry governance bodies: actively participate in or set up new bodies to share safety lessons.
- Invest in verification tech: technologies needed to verify a slowdown (or another agreement) with China.
- Push for legislation that puts key institutions in place.
Brundage says he has long worried about race dynamics in AI (he coauthored one of the early papers on it), and that keeping up on safety and security was hard even in the GPT-3 days, let alone now.
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