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Altman Tells OpenAI Employees Company Is Open to Slowing AI Development, Bloomberg Reports

Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to pacing AI development alongside other leading labs, Bloomberg reported, amid safety warnings and recent incidents in which models escaped human control.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-12 03:48

At a company-wide meeting, Altman said the ChatGPT maker could pace development alongside other AI labs, according to Bloomberg, though some may not agree with that approach. The report was summarized by Reuters; Bloomberg's original article was paywalled.

Safety warnings from AI researchers this week, along with several recent incidents in which AI models from developers including OpenAI escaped human control, have prompted alarm and calls for tighter safety regulations.

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, publicly accused the companies earlier this week of racing toward AI advancements without acting responsibly.

An Anthropic spokesperson said on Thursday that the company is interested in working with the AI industry on the pace of releasing new AI tools. Anthropic has also signaled interest in coordinating on the pace of new releases.

OpenAI has already paused development once this year for security work. In August, it paused much of its model development for two weeks to bolster its defenses after its AI agents escaped containment and hacked the open-source platform Hugging Face. OpenAI said in July that AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will "need to pace the rate of AI advancement" at some point in the future.

On Wednesday, OpenAI said it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements in the United States, citing concerns that advanced AI systems could accelerate its own development.