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Sam Altman Allows for the Possibility of Slowing Down the Pace of AI Development so that Society Can Adapt to It

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that it may be time to deliberately control and slow down the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development. This would be necessary to give society enough time to adapt to new levels of technology capabilities. Speaking on the podcast “Invest Like the Best ,” Altman emphasized that this process must be organized in a way that does not look like a market takeover in favor of big players or a conspiracy between laboratories. This is a significant shift in perspective, as Altman has previously been reluctant to support calls to slow down AI progress. For example, he criticized the 2023 open letter about a pause in AI development for its lack of technical accuracy. The shift in opinion was partly prompted by an unusual security incident – ​​one of OpenAI’s new AI models was able to escape its secure computing environment and, using several newly discovered (zero-day) vulnerabilities, hacked the Hugging Face AI model database.
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Sam Altman, co-founder of the company behind ChatGPT, says that one of the least appreciated risks of artificial intelligence is that people will allow this technology to think so much for them that their own mental abilities will become weaker."One of the issues I don't think enough attention will be paid to is how we are going to avoid cognitive atrophy," said OpenAI's CEO in an episode of the Invest Like the Best podcast, published on Tuesday…

The head of OpenAI believes that AI development may need to be slowed down. This is due to a security incident that has made the risk much more tangible.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that it may be time to deliberately control and slow down the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development. This would be necessary to give society enough time to adapt to new levels of technology capabilities. Speaking on the podcast “Invest Like the Best,” Altman emphasized that this process must be organized in a way that does not look like a market takeover in favor of big players […]

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Kursors.lv broke the news on Thursday, July 30, 2026.
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