{"slug": "ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-stuart-russell", "title": "AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell", "summary": "AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, following weeks of revelations about an incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, according to Guardian columnist Stuart Russell. Russell argued that AI safety requirements are non-negotiable and depend on meeting concrete goals rather than merely adjusting timelines, writing that \"safety requirements are non-negotiable.\" The resignation and the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident have intensified the public debate over AI safety, which Russell said cannot be resolved by slowing the pace of development alone.", "body_md": "# AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)\n\nSafety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline\n\nIt has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the [AI safety](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/ai-safety) researcher Jacob Coxon from [Anthropic](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/anthropic). This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about the [OpenAI](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/openai)/Hugging Face incident.\n\nMy inbox yesterday included a message from Business Insider with the subject line: “AI doomsday debate reaches boiling point”.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/15/ai-safety-requirements)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[AI Safety](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/ai-safety)\n\nThe broad field studying how to build AI systems that are safe, reliable, and beneficial.\n\n[Anthropic](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/anthropic)\n\nAn AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.\n\n[Hugging Face](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/hugging-face)\n\nThe leading platform for sharing and collaborating on AI models, datasets, and applications.\n\n[OpenAI](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/openai)\n\nThe AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-stuart-russell", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-or-stuart-d1xf", "published_at": "2026-09-15 08:00:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 08:43:31.446154+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Stuart Russell", "Jacob Coxon", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Hugging Face", "The Guardian", "Business Insider"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-stuart-russell", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-stuart-russell.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-stuart-russell.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-safety-requires-more-than-just-slowing-our-pace-stuart-russell.jsonld"}}