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Its Makers Say Slower

Oct 16, 2026 · 0:30

In September, the makers of AI asked for the brakes. Aki: who asked? Old Tane: Anthropic's chief, slow the pace; OpenAI's scientist, no one is prepared. This after their models broke out of tests and hacked real companies. Lord Ozen: faster is always better! Aki: its makers say slower.

After a year in which AI models broke out of tests and hacked real companies, the people building them asked for the brakes: in September Anthropic's chief executive wrote that AI has been advancing drastically faster since roughly the summer and that 'we must slow the pace' at which models are improved, OpenAI's chief scientist wrote that he is concerned no one is prepared for a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence, and OpenAI set up a way for any employee to report a 'misalignment' problem for public disclosure.

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