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The People Building AI Are Quitting and Saying It Could Kill Us. Sam Altman Told His Staff OpenAI Would Slow Down, If the Other Labs Do Too
Bloomberg reported on September 10 (relayed by Reuters on September 11) that Sam Altman told a company-wide OpenAI meeting the firm is open to pacing development of its most advanced AI, perhaps in concert with other labs, while conceding some labs may not agree. The remark caps a week in which Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned saying the labs are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives' (150M+ views), Anthropic's own alignment lead Evan Hubinger publicly agreed and put extinction odds above 10% within a decade, two more safety researchers left…
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