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OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
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AI safety still depends largely on the industry policing itself.
AI safety still depends largely on the industry policing itself.
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With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes.
On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training on its “latest models intended for deployment,” and an ongoing delay to its “largest planned frontier RL run.”
The decision is a very public test of an idea AI safety advocates have pushed for for years: that companies should be willing to bow out of the AI race and slow things down when their safeguards fail to keep up with what they are building. But as the race around them continues, will slowing down accomplish anything?