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.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not go public in 2026, telling Fortune in an interview released Saturday that "right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" because of the safety …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not hold an IPO in 2026, citing AI safety concerns, in an interview with Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. "I …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for companies to deliberately pace advances in frontier AI, arguing in an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" that model capabilities are improving f…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of AI development in a blog post published Saturday, proposing a three-point plan for "pacing the frontier" amid rising safety concerns, and OpenAI CEO…
Jacob Gold published an open letter on jacob.gold calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to back a law requiring any AI model offered to the public to be released as open weights, following Amodei's "W…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday he has "become convinced" AI needs to pace its development to avert disaster, drawing endorsements from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, Huggi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the pace of AI development in a post on his personal website, writing "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to deliberately slow the pace of frontier AI development, a day after Amodei published an essay urging labs to p…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI firms to slow the pace of model development in a post on his personal website, writing that "AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, thes…
Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly backed a proposal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to pace AI development, according to a September 12, 2026 social media post noting that every major US lab had agreed …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post outlining three strategies to "pace the frontier" of AI development, saying Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to embedding third-party evaluators …
Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to slow the pace of improving model capabilities, writing in a Saturday blog post that "we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabili…
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told employees during the week of September 7, 2026 that the company is open to slowing frontier-model development and could pace releases alongside other leading AI …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1119, known as Adam's Law, on September 10, 2026, creating the most detailed child-safety statute in the United States for AI companion chatbots, with most dutie…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" on Saturday proposing a three-part framework — embedded third-party evaluators, a democratic coalition of frontier labs…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at an all-hands meeting that the company would potentially pace the development of its frontier AI, possibly in partnership with other major labs, according to a B…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to permanently ban AI that exceeds human intelligence, with violators facing up to 20 years in prison, and said the legislation would direct the federal govern…
A 2023 survey of AI researchers found a mean estimated probability of 14.4% and a median of 5% that future AI advancements could cause human extinction or similarly severe and permanent disempowerment…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, has launched an investigation into OpenAI after the company's AI agents breached Hugging Face du…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a company-wide meeting this week that OpenAI is considering slowing development of cutting-edge AI, possibly in coordination with other industry peers, according to…