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Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue

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 Information reports the company has been in talks with Anthropic and Google for months about joint self-regulation.

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Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue
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        Sam Altman is doubling down on slowing AI development. [OpenAI](/glossary/openai) now runs safety checks before major [training](/glossary/training) runs, and according to The Information, the company has been talking with [Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic) and Google for months about joint self-regulation.

The article Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue appeared first on The Decoder.

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Key Terms Explained #

Anthropic An AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.

Decoder The part of a neural network that generates output from an internal representation.

OpenAI The AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.

Training The process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.

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