OpenAI’s Sam Altman Warns Humans Could Lose Control of AI
Sam Altman said AI companies should slow development enough to improve safety and build safeguards before regulators force them to. He warned of two major risks: losing human control to AI, and concentrating extreme power in one company, person, or country. To avoid both, he argued that alignment, monitoring, and safety methods must advance faster than model capabilities. He said pacing does not mean stopping progress, but developing systems more cautiously and using tools like safety cases before frontier training runs, not just before release. He also called for shared industry standards and greater public trust, while saying governments are mainly needed for international coordination. His comments come amid broader debate over AI regulation and recent testing failures at OpenAI and Anthropic.
