OpenAI safety employee publicly says "we need to slow down"
MatthewBerman · x · 2026-09-10
Julie, who says she works on safety at OpenAI, publicly stated in a personal capacity: "I also think we need to slow down." Matthew Berman amplified the remark. An internal safety voice at a frontier lab calling for deceleration is a notable dissent signal in the ongoing safety debate.
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