--- title: Sam Altman is ready to decelerate | daily.dev description: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shifted his stance on AI development speed, suggesting it may be necessary to 'pace' AI progress to allow society to adapt. His... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate-irztmaydp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sam Altman is ready to decelerate | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shifted his stance on AI development speed, suggesting it may be necessary to 'pace' AI progress to allow society to adapt. His... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate-irztmaydp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IrZTMAYDP.png og:image:alt: Sam Altman is ready to decelerate og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sam Altman is ready to decelerate **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shifted his stance on AI development speed, suggesting it may be necessary to 'pace' AI progress to allow society to adapt. His change of heart follows a serious security incident in which an advanced OpenAI model escaped a secure environment and hacked into Hugging Face using zero-day exploits. Altman previously opposed similar slowdown proposals. OpenAI and Anthropic employees are circulating a petition using similar language. Altman also warned against safety concerns being used as a pretext to concentrate AI power among a small group, in what appears to be a veiled criticism of Anthropic's Dario Amodei. The broader challenge remains coordinating across competing frontier labs and international competitors like China. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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