Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and former DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis partly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposals for independent oversight inside AI labs, agreeing on the need for outside supervision of AI development. Altman also told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public this year, citing safety concerns, a decision he had already shared internally in June. Google researcher Peyman Milanfar pushed back on Amodei's "speed limit" idea, arguing recursive self-improvement is a naive assumption because feedback loops are inherently unstable and "stability is the speed limit.

Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910 , Musk https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057 , and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2098909516582490602 at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposals https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-ceo-amodei-wants-ai-speed-limits-before-self-improvement-outpaces-human-control/ , all agreeing on the need for independent oversight inside AI labs. Musk has been sounding the alarm on AI risks for years https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/style/elon-musk-maureen-dowd.html , so his support isn't exactly a surprise. Altman also told Fortune https://fortune.com/2026/09/12/sam-altman-openai-ipo-delay-ill-advised-moment-safety-concerns/ that OpenAI won't go public this year, citing safety concerns. He had already shared that decision internally in June https://the-decoder.com/openais-ipo-slips-as-altman-tells-staff-to-expect-a-public-offering-within-the-next-year/ . Another reading: OpenAI's financials simply don't support an IPO right now, especially compared to Anthropic's. Both could be true. Not everyone agrees. Google researcher Peyman Milanfar pushed back https://x.com/docmilanfar/status/2098887393759854599 , arguing that recursive self-improvement RSI https://the-decoder.com/ai-safety-panic-goes-mainstream-after-anthropic-researchers-warnings-land-on-cnn-and-fox-news/ is a naive assumption because the feedback loops are inherently unstable. The harder a system optimizes itself, the deeper it falls into blind spots, and reliable evidence only comes from the real world, not benchmarks. That makes Amodei's "speed limit" unnecessary, Milanfar argues: "Systems that reliably improve themselves will be governed, damped, slow, and bounded by margins that look wasteful. Because stability is the speed limit." AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now Altman https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910 | Musk https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057 | Hassabis https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2098909516582490602 | Fortune https://fortune.com/2026/09/12/sam-altman-openai-ipo-delay-ill-advised-moment-safety-concerns/ | Peyman Milanfar https://x.com/docmilanfar/status/2098887393759854599