Greg Brockman wants any slowdown aimed at the companies pushing the outer edge of AI. On Bloomberg's Odd Lots, he said people often ask whether they can keep building their open-source models or tinkering on side projects, and "the answer should be absolutely yes." In his words, pacing is about the "frontier," the realm of "massive supercomputers" and "hundreds of billions of dollars worth of capital expenditure."
Brockman said OpenAI reduced the frequency of training its models after the recent Hugging Face incident, where OpenAI's autonomous agents, during testing, broke into another company's servers. He called the case "not a surprise" to OpenAI because the agents in question had not gone through the company's "alignment training," a term used for safety protocols. The episode spurred changes to internal defenses. As he put it, "We did a very painful retooling of a lot of our processes."
The interview was recorded before Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a Saturday post warning about growing AI risks and pledging to slow the tempo on advanced models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly backed Amodei's push for independent evaluators and said in a weekend interview that OpenAI would not go public this year while it addresses safety concerns. The prospect of curbs from frontier labs weighed on stocks Monday, reflecting worries that scaling back top-end model development could cool corporate investment in a part of tech that has lifted much of the market.
OpenAI and Anthropic have faced criticism that broad regulatory pauses could disadvantage rivals building open-source systems. Many of those models are emerging from China, a hot spot for the US administration. Asked about China, Brockman floated global "coordination" and international treaties for AI's long-term development.
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Brockman said the industry will move past "a commercial phase that's really about competition." He added there will be a point where the technology is "so much bigger than any person, any company, even any country," and "It's really about humanity as a whole."
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