After Altman's pacing-for-safety remark, Wildeford proposes concrete slowdown options for OpenAI
peterwildeford · x · 2026-09-09
AI safety researcher Peter Wildeford quotes Sam Altman — "We have been talking a lot about the need to pace progress to ensure safety; for me this is the strongest evidence yet of the urgency" — and asks what OpenAI should actually do about it.
He outlines a thread of concrete, actionable proposals, urging "everyone at OpenAI should read this thread." The post ties into his essay "The Scramble," covering feasible deceleration mechanisms, competitive-dynamics tradeoffs, and concrete options governments should prepare as superintelligence approaches.
It's a substantive response pushing Altman's rare statement from slogan toward concrete policy options.
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