Inside OpenAI's all-hands: Sam Altman walks through 3 plans to pace AI development
steph_palazzolo · x · 2026-10-20
- Reporter Stephanie Palazzolo shares details from last week's OpenAI all-hands, where CEO Sam Altman outlined three industry proposals for pacing AI development:
- IAEA for AI: an international oversight body modeled on the nuclear watchdog
- The Demis plan: a CERN-style centralized frontier research approach
- The Eliezer plan: "melt everyone else's GPUs" — the radical safety-first route
An audio link in the post covers how OpenAI leadership views global coordination on AI development speed.
Related event: Altman Outlined Three Endgames for AI Safety to OpenAI Staff(3 posts)→
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