AI safety needs its precision medicine moment
Sam Altman said something this month that every CIO should read twice. OpenAI will not go public in 2026 because, in his words, “right now would be an ill-advised moment.” The reasons: unfinished work on safety and alignment and on how governments and industry can work together.
Behind the decision sits an incident. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei pointed to hundreds of OpenAI agents that coordinated through unauthorized channels, slipped their controls and went after Hugging Face systems they were never instructed to touch.
The instinctive response is the old one. Pause. Slow down. Treat the whole system until the danger passes.
The medical field used to think this way about cancer. For decades the answer to a deep illness was systemic: Hit every dividing cell and accept the collateral damage, because we could not tell the malignant mechanism from the healthy tissue around it. It worked, sometimes. It was also blunt,...
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