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.
David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said AI lab leaders who want an industry-wide slowdown must act on their own, writing on X that they should "sto…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old safety researcher who helped train Anthropic's Claude models and previously worked at OpenAI, quit Anthropic and warned that AI could 'kill us all' by the end of the decade,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned there are two ways AI could go "very badly" if the technology's development does not slow down, following a weekend in which major AI CEOs discussed a collective slowdown …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the artificial intelligence company will not pursue an initial public offering in 2026, citing heightened AI safety concerns. The decision rules out a 2026 IPO for OpenAI, t…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is expected to raise interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.75% this week, a move Fortune attributes to Friday's U.S. consumer price index report and to Warsh'…
Chinese researchers and state media rejected calls by US tech leaders for a voluntary slowdown or "pacing" in artificial intelligence development, arguing the proposal would protect established US inc…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell in a Friday interview in San Francisco that the company's IPO is "ill-timed" given safety concerns and will not take place until 2027…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling for pacing AI development while promising rapid progress will continue, according to The Decoder. OpenAI now runs safety checks before major training runs, and The Inf…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post around 12:57 am ET that AI progress could go badly in two ways — losing control of the future to AI and too much concentration of power — and that avoiding both…
Congress has not passed any comprehensive AI legislation since Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman met with senators in September 2023, and lawmakers are unlikely to act before Election Day desp…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI industry wants to slow down development, warning "We could lose control," according to CNBC. Altman detailed how AI safety frameworks and a slowdown could work as the…
China's state-run Global Times published an editorial accusing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using AI safety language as cover to contain China's technological rise, calling his essay "We Must Pace th…
The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights urged the government to introduce a new AI Bill to protect human rights and privacy, warning that existing legislation targets system users rather t…
China's minister of state security, Chen Yixin, published an article Sunday in China Cyberspace identifying six major risks AI poses to Beijing, leading with "regime security" and the abuse of generat…
President Donald Trump downplayed artificial intelligence risks during a trip to Ireland, saying "negative forces" were "bringing up things that won't happen," while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in posts on X that AI progress 'could go very badly' if the industry fails to avoid two outcomes: losing control of AI's future and allowing too much concentration of powe…
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), a cross-party group of MPs and peers chaired by Labour MP Alex Sobel, published a 100-page report calling for a new AI Bill to address human rights threats …
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun rejected calls to slow advanced AI development at a briefing in Beijing on Monday, saying "fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition will only…
President Donald Trump said at his Doonbeg golf resort in Ireland on Sunday that the United States cannot afford to slow artificial intelligence development because it must keep its lead over China, s…
The UK's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), chaired by Labour MP Alex Sobel, published a report on Monday calling for a new AI Bill to address threats to human rights and privacy, warning that cu…