Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, where he has led the company's transition from research lab to commercial AI leader. He was briefly fired by the OpenAI board in November 2023 before being reinstated.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said labs have a "strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned" because "labs face significant liability if their models cause harm," and disclosed that Meta del…
AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X CEO Elon Musk publicly agreed that AI needs regu…
Tech investor Bill Gurley publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal for independent evaluators with employee-like access to patrol AI advances, calling the idea "structurally broken" in …
An essay argues that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow AI development and install independent safety teams is not regulatory capture, because classic capture as described in Marver Bernste…
A widening rift among AI executives over how fast to deploy frontier models has become the defining tension of the industry's next phase, pitting safety-first researchers against leaders who argue tha…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" arguing the AI industry must deliberately slow how fast it increases model capabilities so safeguards can catch up, a c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that the public is "right to be afraid" that AI companies could gain excessive economic and social influenc…
SV Angel, the investment firm led by Democratic megadonor Ron Conway, has hired former Obama White House press secretary Jay Carney to run "Project Blueprint," a new initiative aimed at shaping nation…
At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang offered sharply divergent positions on whether frontier AI labs should deliberately slow…
Shakeel Hashim argues in The Guardian that the US government is failing Americans on AI, writing that Donald Trump and Republican leadership want companies to regulate themselves, which Hashim calls a…
President Donald Trump rejected calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and xAI's Elon Musk to regulate artificial intelligence, calling the danger of AI "a HOAX" in a Truth Social…
President Donald Trump dismissed warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about slowing frontier AI development, saying "You have a lot of very negative forces that are bring…
A developer's field notes argue that Dario Amodei's September 2026 "We Must Pace the Frontier" proposal and OpenAI's pledge to give third-party evaluators employee-like access address frontier capabil…
Recursive CEO Richard Socher declared in an X post on Wednesday that "There is NO realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity," pushing back on extinction warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario A…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" proposal — a three-step plan of embedded evaluators, democratic coordination, and global alignment — would require a US government antitrust wa…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for AI labs to slow frontier model development, speaking on back-to-back days at the All-In Sum…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a San Francisco conference on Tuesday that the world is "right to be afraid" of AI, while urging trust that OpenAI will "do the right thing." Altman's remarks followed fo…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will invite the main frontier AI labs to a discussion on how the EU can "support ongoing industry efforts to pace the frontier," according to a draft…
At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on September 15, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei split over who should decide when frontier AI models are safe enoug…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference Tuesday that accidents with increasingly capable AI models are "regrettably" unavoidable, and urged the industry to build a culture of …