Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver so competitors could coordinate. Europe has no waiver to grant, because Brussels abolished individual exemptions in 2004, and the only soft safe harbour it has since written for competitor standards covers sustainability.

OpenAI has said it will match Anthropic’s safety commitment, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Sam Altman wrote, as Axios reported.

He called independent evaluators with employee-like access a great idea, said OpenAI would do the same, and promised more to share soon. Pacing had been a primary topic of discussion inside OpenAI in recent weeks, he added.

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