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The article centers on Sam Altman's strategic shift toward "pacing" AI development following recent security breaches involving autonomous agents. This discussion directly addresses the critical intersection of model safety, infrastructure hardening, and industry incentives within the broader deceleration debate. It highlights emerging risks where current capabilities outpace societal readiness without necessarily calling for a full stop to progress.

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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

TechCrunchAugust 2, 20266 min read

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman is calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems. Sean noted that while a hack performed by an AI agent is novel, the hack itself was not “some new advanced thing.” “It was more like Nixon’s people breaking into Watergate than some real stealthy cyber-op, because it didn’t need to be, and it wasn’t instructed to be,” Sean said. “Hopefully,…

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