Altman reportedly open to slowing frontier AI in sync with other labs, sparking prisoner's dilemma debate
arthurcolle · x · 2026-09-12
According to Bloomberg, Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing frontier AI development, potentially alongside other major labs; Anthropic has also expressed interest in coordinating release pacing with the industry. The quoter frames it as a prisoner's dilemma: neither lab wants to slow down alone and hand the other a free run at AGI, so only a collectively agreed slowdown would work. The poster's own take: "Accelerate."
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