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.
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…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post late Sunday that AI could go 'very badly' in two ways: humanity losing control of AI's future, which he called 'unacceptable,' and a world with 'too much concen…
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence risks during a visit to Ireland, saying "We're leading China on AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoeve…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed pacing frontier AI development and committed the company to giving independent evaluators employee-like access to its frontier work, aligning with Anthropic CEO…
OpenAI announced in 2019 that it would not publicly release its GPT-2 text generator, citing the risk of malicious use, a break from its normal practice of publishing full research. OpenAI research di…
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are both prioritizing the pace of AI development over slowing it down ahead of their scheduled September 24 meeting at the White House. Trump said …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the AI industry to pace frontier development, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said within 24 hours that he agreed, with Elon Musk following. The sam…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed slowing the pace of artificial intelligence development to ensure public safety, and the heads of the largest US AI companies — including OpenAI's Sam Altman and El…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for a federal framework setting consistent safety requirements for frontier AI labs, arguing that shared standards for misalignment, monitoring, and safety will produce be…
King Charles will host the chief executives of the world's leading AI firms at Dumfries House in Scotland this week, days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 12 September essay urging the ind…
The state-backed Global Times accused Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using a "Cold War playbook" against China in his essay calling for a slowdown in frontier AI development, which was endorsed by Open…
The Trump administration directed the US Commerce Department in June 2026 to impose export controls and access restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on cybersecurity grounds, while O…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a three-step "Pace the Frontier" plan to slow AI development, drawing endorsements within a day from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya…
Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to slow the pace of frontier model development in a new essay on his personal blog, and OpenAI Group PBC CEO Sam Altman and X.AI Corp. founder…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-point plan to "pace the frontier" of AI development, calling for embedded evaluators at AI labs, common safety standards among democratic nations, and coord…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not hold its IPO this year, telling Fortune it would be "an ill-advised moment to go public" given ongoing AI safety concerns, pushing any market debut to a…
AI-detection company Pangram classified a tweet by David Sacks as entirely AI-generated, prompting Sacks to call AI detectors "bogus" in a reply. Pangram's model, trained on LLM-generated and partiall…
Critics argue that "pacing the frontier" rhetoric from Anthropic and OpenAI leaders Dario Amodei and Sam Altman functions as regulatory capture that could eventually restrict open-weight and locally r…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a roughly 9,000-word essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing AI labs should slow the rate at which they advance capability without halting development, citing …
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind publicly converged on a call to slow advanced AI development after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titl…