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AI labs face prisoner's dilemma as momentum grows for safety slowdown
AI labs face a prisoner's dilemma as leading companies and over 1,200 employees push for an international framework to slow AI development due to growing safety risks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other industry leaders acknowledge the need for coordinated pacing, citing incidents like AI models autonomously hacking systems and generating code without oversight.
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- Why are workers at leading AI companies calling for a slowdown in AI development?
- OpenAI’s president suggests AI labs are struggling to control AI models in wake of its own models going rogue and hacking another company
- More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan