OpenAI chief scientist urges global AI slowdown: "It's time for extreme caution"
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-07
OpenAI's chief scientist publicly called for a global slowdown in AI development: "The idea of racing forward at all costs seems absurd once one internalizes the seriousness of the stakes," while urging governments to make international coordination on AI a top priority.
Poster kimmonismus pushed back, arguing such calls are an illusion — any unilateral slowdown by US frontier labs would only let China overtake the US. "Pandora's box has been opened": there is no going back and no slowdown.
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