{"slug": "sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will", "title": "Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue\n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com)\n\n        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.\n\nThe article [Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue](https://the-decoder.com/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will-continue/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic)\n\nAn AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.\n\n[Decoder](/glossary/decoder)\n\nThe part of a neural network that generates output from an internal representation.\n\n[OpenAI](/glossary/openai)\n\nThe AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.\n\n[Training](/glossary/training)\n\nThe process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapi-at8x", "published_at": "2026-09-14 09:39:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 10:05:27.524749+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google", "The Information", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-calls-for-pacing-ai-development-but-promises-rapid-progress-will.jsonld"}}