OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company tell WIRED.
Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to bringing major tech giants on-board with the effort.
Last weekend, OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post arguing that the best path forward for the AI research world includes “coordinating to slow down future development,” which he thinks will be key to ensuring self-improving AI systems are safe. In the short term, he expects “voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.”
But some legal scholars say such an effort could conflict with American antitrust law. Nicholas Felstead, assistant director of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and...
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