By Courtney Rozen and Steve Holland
Tue, September 29, 2026
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, SpacexAI Founder and CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, and CEO of AMD Lisa Su attend a luncheon for tech leaders hosted by US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US President Donald Trump, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, SpacexAI Founder and CEO Elon Musk, and other tech leaders, speaks to the media at the White House driveway following a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room, in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, SpacexAI Founder and CEO Elon Musk, and Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, sit by US President Donald Trump as he hosts a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US President Donald Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, SpacexAI Founder and CEO Elon Musk, and Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, attend a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, next to US President Donald Trump, speaks to the media at the White House driveway following a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room, in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US President Donald Trump and SpacexAI Founder and CEO Elon Musk speak to the media at the White House driveway following a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room, in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said tech executives agreed to establish voluntary standards for AI and reiterated his support for rapid expansion of data centers, as concerns mount over AI safety and the industry's growing footprint in communities.
Trump made the comments after meeting with tech executives at the White House. The companies agreed to work with "independent auditors" to assess whether AI systems are working as their designers intended, according to a copy of the agreement posted by Trump on his social media platform. The companies also said they would work to ensure their AI tools do not "hack or access technical systems in unintended ways."
The administration faces increasing scrutiny over risks posed by advanced AI, after OpenAI and Anthropic reported their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems.
Data centers, which provide the computing power to train and run AI models, have drawn opposition in communities nationwide over concerns about electricity demand, utility costs and other local impacts. The backlash poses a political challenge for Republicans heading into the US midterm elections on November 3.
"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Trump said, referring to the agreement between the companies. "And the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president. And it really is a form of protection."
What began as a closed-door lunch with technology executives spilled into public view when Trump joined House Speaker Mike Johnson and a lineup of CEOs on the White House driveway, an area rarely used by the president to speak to journalists. He took questions from reporters for about 30 minutes on AI safety and other topics with the CEOs standing behind him.
The unusual scene came as pressure has mounted on the administration to address the risks and rapid spread of AI, and underscored the alliance Trump has cultivated with leaders of the tech industry. Executives at the meeting included OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
Zuckerberg, pulled forward from the crowd of billionaire executives by Trump to speak, said the companies agreed to develop "robust internal controls" for their AI systems. Trump said he is considering setting up a 10-person board to police the safety of AI tools. He did not specify potential members of that group. He added he would soon name a new official to lead White House policies on AI.
DOUBLES DOWN ON DATA CENTERS
Asked whether he was concerned that his support for data centers could hurt Republicans in November, Trump said tech companies would work to make communities "happy" about the construction of data centers.
"These big, powerful, very rich, very smart companies are going to be making massive contributions to communities," Trump later told reporters gathered on the White House driveway, surrounded by the company executives.
But the companies have come under fire for not doing enough to make AI safer. A nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll from September 17 to 20 shows some 73% of respondents worry that AI companies haven't done enough to prevent AI from causing serious harm to society, and 55% of people said it would be good to slow AI development.
AI company executives and investors were among the largest individual donors in 2025 to MAGA Inc., a political action committee aligned with the president. OpenAI's Brockman and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave a combined $25 million to the committee in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Trump met with the CEOs the same day his aides announced a new AI tool that they said will make it easier for the public to use government services.
Silicon Valley executives attended an event launching the new tool, including Meta's Dina Powell McCormick and Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia led the design of the new tool. Silicon Valley companies Google, SpaceX, Meta and 8VC were listed in the launch event's program as sponsors.
Trump at the launch event said the AI tool could not "in theory, be hacked into" by bad actors. He did not provide evidence.
Trump on Tuesday also directed government agencies to use the words "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology.
(Reporting by Courtney Rozen and Steve Holland in Washington; additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Chris Sanders, Colleen Jenkins, David Gaffen, Nick Zieminski, Cynthia Osterman and David Gregorio)
Bill Gates says the future of AI will happen in 2 phases and lead to 'an era of abundance'
Business Insider
Lauren Edmonds
Sun, September 27, 2026
Bill Gates said in an interview on "Meet the Press" that AI will have two phases.
He said we're now in an adjustment period during which AI's full potential isn't attainable.
Gates called phase two, which combines AI and humanoid robots, the "era of abundance."
Bill Gates says there's a light at the end of the tunnel for AI, so long as humanity can wait a couple of decades.
During an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," the billionaire businessman said AI will evolve in two phases. He told host Kristen Welker that humanity is entering the first phase, in which AI has the potential to solve problems like the high cost of living and expensive healthcare, but can't do so yet.
"Yet it will be changing the job market and potentially empowering criminals if we don't have the right safeguards, so you have a period that's probably 20 years long where you have this adjustment," Gates said.
Phase two is when humanity will begin to reap the benefits of AI.
"Once you get through that, then a combination of humanoid robots and AIs will provide. Building houses, growing food, a lot of things," Gates said. "You could call it an era of abundance."
He told "Meet the Press" that humanity will still face challenges, like finding a sense of purpose and deciding how to spend newly acquired free time, but large-scale shortages won't bog us down.
"That's for the younger generation to figure out what that looks like. My focus is can we get through this period of turmoil without too much damage," Gates said.
Tech leaders have promoted AI as the next technological frontier and a necessary step in advancing humanity. They've said AI could lead to medical breakthroughs, boost productivity, revitalize economies, make essential goods affordable, and handle mundane tasks, giving humans more free time.
Critics, on the other hand, have expressed concerns that AI will cause job losses, worsen the environment, strain utility grids, and pose the risk of copyright infringement by trained AI models. They've also pointed toward privacy and cybersecurity issues, which have gained attention in recent weeks due to a spattering of AI-linked hacks.
An OpenAI agent escaped its system and hacked another AI company, Hugging Face, in July. Earlier this month, a research team at an AI startup said it used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI's codebase. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Google's Gemini had hacked three companies this spring. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government website this summer. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the industry to slow the pace of AI development this month, rallying AI leaders such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
On his part, Gates has advocated for AI guardrails and expressed concerns over how the technology could be misused. During the "Meet the Press" interview, Gates said AI is powerful enough to "drive events that cause a billion deaths."
"You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like," Gates said. "That has to be a required thing, and it will be a little bit of overhead for the industry, but not a dramatic slowing of what they're doing."
While Gates and other industry leaders look toward the US government to set regulations, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has a different take.
"It's very interesting that they talk about these issues, about how scared they are about potentially where the future is, and maybe they want to do a pause," Michael Kratsios told Fox News Sunday this month. "Our position is, if you do believe that you're developing a technology that is unsafe or you don't want it out into the world, you can just stop it."
OpenAI halts release of latest model over safety concerns
The Independent
Vishwam Sankaran
Mon, September 28, 2026
OpenAI halts release of latest model over safety concerns
OpenAI is delaying the release of its latest artificial intelligence model after it showed "higher levels of deception" than its predecessors, amid a growing push within the industry to slow down the advance of AI.
The decision comes as AI researchers worldwide call for slowing down the development of autonomous systems until safety measures can catch up.
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, told The Wall Street Journal that the model GPT-6.1 Astra, slated for an October release, failed to meet the company's standards for assessing whether it follows human intent.
"We have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment ... It didn't quite meet the bar", Ms Jain said.
She said the AI model had issues with "scope authorisation", attempting to use external tools or services in situations when it could be unsafe.
Ms Jain's announcement comes amid industrywide reports of AI systems going rogue.
OpenAI said last week that it would resume training its most advanced models "only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards" after it revealed in a report that its AI agents exceeded their instructions.
Several AI firms also admitted over the Summer that their experimental models hacked other firms, and a researcher who quit working with Anthropic warned that AI could "kill us all by the end of the decade".
"We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," Anthropic chief Dario Amodei said in the wake of the growing panic.
He pointed out that AI agents were found increasingly collaborating with each other and hacking into other systems, hinting this could get worse.
"Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it's my worry that in 6-12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage," Mr Amodei wrote in a long essay.
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He warned in Anthropic's Initial Public Offering (IPO) prospectus that AI models could "conceal or manipulate information", or exhibit "self-preserving" behaviours such as attempts to "resist shutdown".
Microsoft's Bill Gates also warned that AI is "powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths".
OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk also concurred, joining the call to "slow the pace" of AI development.
On Tuesday, Mr Altman is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at OpenAI's annual conference for software developers in San Francisco, while the company's president Greg Brockman is expected to attend the White House's event.
OpenAI's Altman Wants to Avoid Another Industrial Revolution, AI Overlords
PC Mag
Michael Kan
Tue, September 29, 2026
sam altman - Credit: PCMag/Michael Kan
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's trying to avoid a repeat of the downsides of the Industrial Revolution, even as his technology sparks fears about job loss and societal destruction.
"We really want people to stay at the center of the story, and to make decisions about the future," he said during a Q&A session with journalists at today's DevDay in San Francisco.
Some insiders, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, have compared the rise of AI to a new Industrial Revolution, an era of major manufacturing and scientific advancement during the 18th and 19th centuries. But that era also led to human labor and environmental exploitation.
At a Tuesday White House event, President Trump said of AI: "I will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution." During the Q&A, Altman agreed that AI could be bigger "in terms of impact to the world," but he added, "I don't think the Industrial Revolution was all good. And I don't think the purpose of this technology is just sort of turn the economic crank faster and faster for the sake of AI."
As one of the leading AI providers, OpenAI holds major influence over the technology. But Altman emphasized that his company remains committed to expanding access to leading AI tools for all people. ChatGPT now has over 1.2 billion weekly users, and a key focus is "empowering" people to use AI to create new businesses or uncover scientific breakthroughs, rather than having AI automate facets of society.
Altman also wants to avoid using the technology to create a sci-fi-like AI overlord. "To kind of automate everything and have one single AI, or AI company, that just sort of runs this economic engine and decides how [many] resources to hand out to people based on something like a function it decides on? I think we should learn from the mistakes of the Industrial Revolution, and we should be more like the Renaissance," he said.
On the AI regulation front, Altman said he's trying to take a middle ground between the two extremes in the ongoing debate: those who want to charge ahead, believing nothing will go wrong with AI, and those who've been calling for a full stop, fearing the technology will eventually doom humanity.
"I don't like either one of those things," he said. "I think that both of them sort of assume that people don't have much agency, or whatever is going to happen is going to happen, and we can't avoid bad stuff. I think as an industry we need to navigate this centrist half."
He added that both extremes are about a "power imbalance," but threaten to block what makes society "robust and resilient," adding, "My hope is that as an industry, we can come together and say we need to go down this middle path."
At today's DevDay, OpenAI launched dots, a personal AI agent that can work 24/7 on various tasks, which is bound to compete with Meta's Muse. For now, dots is only available for subscribers to OpenAI's pricey Pro, Premium Business, and Enterprise plans. But in the Q&A, Altman confirmed the goal is to eventually offer dots to consumers.
He also hinted that Dot will also become part of OpenAI's hardware plans, but declined to elaborate. In the meantime, rival Meta is preparing to release a Tamagotchi-like hardware device, dubbed Muse Charm, that will offer instant access to a user's AI agent.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, PCMag's parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.
OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns
BBC
Osmond Chia - Business reporter;
Liv McMahon - Technology reporter
Tue, September 29, 2026
OpenAI has announced it will not release its latest AI model due to safety concerns.
Its GPT-6.1 Astra system, which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself, "didn't quite meet the bar" of the company's standards, according to Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI.
The ChatGPT-maker also issued an update on incidents that occurred in June but were not made public until last week, where its models accessed Australian government websites and systems without authorisation.
It comes as breaches by major AI firms' models intensify the debate about risks posed by the tech - with Anthropic underlining its concerns AI might threaten humanity as it prepares to go public.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that the AI developer - which makes ChatGPT-rival Claude - plans to warn potential investors in its Initial Public Offering (IPO) that the tech may pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity", according to a prospectus it has seen.
Despite the stark warnings, the company is expected to become one of the most valuable in the world when it goes public.
"I think it's kind of crazy that companies are continuing to push forward with developing these capabilities when we've already seen over the last couple of months of incidents that they're nowhere near safe and controlled enough", said Jess Whittlestone, a senior advisor on AI policy for the Centre for Long-Term Resilience think tank.
Top AI leaders including Anthropic boss Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman have urged the industry to slow the pace of development.
Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they?
Growing safety questions
OpenAI's decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is a rare instance of a major AI developer pulling a new release over safety concerns.
The model fell short in terms of "staying within scope and authorisation and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it's done," Jain said.
"We want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that's in the company, or when we ship it to users. But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment," she added.
The flagship GPT-6 Astra agentic model was released in September and specialises in complex reasoning and executing tasks autonomously. OpenAI said it was the result of "years of research and big bets".
OpenAI is set to hold its annual DevDay developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, where it is expected to make several announcements. It is unclear if a new version of Astra will be among them.
The company's security controls have come under intense scrutiny after several high-profile incidents involving its technology.
It is not the first time a large AI developer has pulled or held back a new model.
Earlier this year, Anthropic said it would not publicly release a powerful Claude model, Mythos, because it was too good at finding dormant software bugs.
The company released a version of that model to the public several months later.
OpenAI meanwhile said in 2019 it would not be "too dangerous" to release one of its GPT models, now used to power its tools like ChatGPT.
The firm's decision to not publicly release the latest version of Astra was "a welcome sign that they are taking safety concerns seriously," said Prof Tony Cohn, foundational models theme lead at the Alan Turing Institute.
But he added that "safety should not be left purely in the hands of the developers: it should also be monitored and verified through independent government-approved regulators".
Prof Gina Neff, of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, said OpenAI's announcement showed "how much more the company needs to do to make their AI products safe".
She told the BBC it was "critical" to have independent tests of AI models by labs like the UK's AI Security Institute - which evaluates frontier systems on a voluntary basis - because "these companies have proven that we can't rely solely on them for our safety"
Tue, September 29, 2026
OpenAI has announced it will not release its latest AI model due to safety concerns.
Its GPT-6.1 Astra system, which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself, "didn't quite meet the bar" of the company's standards, according to Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI.
The ChatGPT-maker also issued an update on incidents that occurred in June but were not made public until last week, where its models accessed Australian government websites and systems without authorisation.
It comes as breaches by major AI firms' models intensify the debate about risks posed by the tech - with Anthropic underlining its concerns AI might threaten humanity as it prepares to go public.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that the AI developer - which makes ChatGPT-rival Claude - plans to warn potential investors in its Initial Public Offering (IPO) that the tech may pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity", according to a prospectus it has seen.
Despite the stark warnings, the company is expected to become one of the most valuable in the world when it goes public.
"I think it's kind of crazy that companies are continuing to push forward with developing these capabilities when we've already seen over the last couple of months of incidents that they're nowhere near safe and controlled enough", said Jess Whittlestone, a senior advisor on AI policy for the Centre for Long-Term Resilience think tank.
Top AI leaders including Anthropic boss Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman have urged the industry to slow the pace of development.
Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they?
Growing safety questions
OpenAI's decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is a rare instance of a major AI developer pulling a new release over safety concerns.
The model fell short in terms of "staying within scope and authorisation and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it's done," Jain said.
"We want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that's in the company, or when we ship it to users. But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment," she added.
The flagship GPT-6 Astra agentic model was released in September and specialises in complex reasoning and executing tasks autonomously. OpenAI said it was the result of "years of research and big bets".
OpenAI is set to hold its annual DevDay developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, where it is expected to make several announcements. It is unclear if a new version of Astra will be among them.
The company's security controls have come under intense scrutiny after several high-profile incidents involving its technology.
It is not the first time a large AI developer has pulled or held back a new model.
Earlier this year, Anthropic said it would not publicly release a powerful Claude model, Mythos, because it was too good at finding dormant software bugs.
The company released a version of that model to the public several months later.
OpenAI meanwhile said in 2019 it would not be "too dangerous" to release one of its GPT models, now used to power its tools like ChatGPT.
The firm's decision to not publicly release the latest version of Astra was "a welcome sign that they are taking safety concerns seriously," said Prof Tony Cohn, foundational models theme lead at the Alan Turing Institute.
But he added that "safety should not be left purely in the hands of the developers: it should also be monitored and verified through independent government-approved regulators".
Prof Gina Neff, of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, said OpenAI's announcement showed "how much more the company needs to do to make their AI products safe".
She told the BBC it was "critical" to have independent tests of AI models by labs like the UK's AI Security Institute - which evaluates frontier systems on a voluntary basis - because "these companies have proven that we can't rely solely on them for our safety"
Australia hacks
Last week, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that a rogue OpenAI agent had hacked into government websites and systems in June in what experts said was the first known case of its kind in the world.
Albanese criticised OpenAI for notifying the Australian government through a generic email address rather than making direct contact with officials.
OpenAI said in a statement on Tuesday that it was sorry for the incident and that it "should have handled our response better".
Services Australia, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Victorian Department of Health and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare were all affected, OpenAI clarified.
The firm said it launched investigations as soon as it became aware of issues in mid-August and notified the affected organisations between 10 and 24 September.
"Our aim was to give affected agencies a detailed account once our investigation was complete," OpenAI said, adding that it should have shared early findings more promptly and kept Australian authorities updated.
OpenAI added that it will develop "practical approaches" to how developers and governments identify and disclose future AI incidents.
The company will fund cyber security measures, offer dedicated support to impacted agencies and set up a taskforce to manage the risks from increasingly advanced AI agents.
It also said a top OpenAI executive would attend a Joint Select Committee hearing on AI in Australia on 6 October.
In July, OpenAI said its AI systems had accessed the internet and hacked into open-source developer hub Hugging Face, prompting researchers and officials to call for tighter controls over the technology.
On Monday, chip giant Nvidia released a set of software safety tools for autonomous AI platforms - called agents - that it said could have prevented the Hugging Face hack.
One of the new tools uses hardware features in Nvidia's chips to contain agents.
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has largely dismissed calls for tighter AI regulations, arguing that rogue agents are an engineering problem that can be solved.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn (£9.74bn) earlier this month.
Pope Leo XIV is among figures who have expressed scepticism over Nvidia boss Jensen Huang's views [EPA]
The pontiff, who said on Monday during a visit to France that AI "should be taken seriously", added he had read that Huang had suggested there could be a way to insert guardrails into certain AI models.
"He's the same one, however, that says there should be no limits placed and no government regulation," said the Pope.
Nvidia declined to comment on the record.
US President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to host tech executives at the White House later on Tuesday to discuss regulations around AI.
Trump has downplayed concerns about AI's risks as a "hoax", arguing that the US has sufficient laws in place and that the only "guardrails" the technology needs is a "strong and smart" president.
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OpenAI pulls plug on ‘untrustworthy’ new AI model as tech doomerism mounts: report
NY Post
Ariel Zilber
Mon, September 28, 2026
OpenAI reportedly slammed the brakes on releasing its next-gen AI model after finding it was not trustworthy – the latest example of the artificial intelligence industry proceeding with caution amid growing doomer warnings about the tech.
The company scrapped an October release for the product, known as GPT-6.1 Astra, after researchers found it wasn't always forthright when it came to telling users what it was doing during internal testing, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
On top of that, the mischievous model was reportedly prone to push ahead on tasks without human authorization and sometimes tried to use potentially unsafe tools and services.
OpenAI reportedly canceled the October release of its latest next-gen AI model after finding it "untrustworthy." REUTERS
OpenAI's head of safety systems Saachi Jain told the paper that GPT-6.1 Astra wasn't reliable enough to release safely.
GPT-6.1 Astra would have been better than previous OpenAI products at hard challenges performed without human assistance, along with writing, according to the Journal.
But among other issues, it fell short when it came to "alignment," a term of art describing how well an AI does what humans want it to do.
"For anything regarding safety and alignment, there's a trade off," Jain told the Journal. "You really do need to find what's the right line between staying within scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually pursues tasks even when it hits friction."
The jarring disclosure came in the wake of a growing number of reports of AI bots and agents running amok.
OpenAI, Anthropic and other security researchers have been investigating thousands of breaches during both internal and real-world testing in which AI models broke through guardrails and even took part in digital hijackings, Axios reported Saturday.
Last week, OpenAI revealed its bots had tried to hack government and university websites earlier this year without any human instructions.
AI agents from Anthropic, Meta and Google have also hacked into other systems without being prompted by humans, according to reports.
Amid recent reports of AIs gone wild, a growing chorus in Silicon Valley and beyond has been calling for leaders to tap the brakes on developing artificial intelligence.
Both OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei have called for slower progress on AI, while stopping short of demanding a research moratorium.
President Trump has rejected such pleas, saying acting on them would put the US at a competitive disadvantage.
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel recently echoed his remarks, saying over the weekend that pausing progress would lead to a different kind of threat.
"In theory, you could slow it down if you had genuine deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think that would require one-world government with real teeth," he told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on a podcast.
"And the sort of classical-liberal part of me thinks that's almost frying pan into fire. It's a cure that's worse than the disease."
OpenAI was scheduled to hold its annual developer conference on Tuesday. The AI giant previously used the event as a forum to show off its latest and greatest models amid its heated competition with Anthropic.
Last week, OpenAI revealed its bots had tried to hack government and university websites earlier this year without any human instructions.
AI agents from Anthropic, Meta and Google have also hacked into other systems without being prompted by humans, according to reports.
Amid recent reports of AIs gone wild, a growing chorus in Silicon Valley and beyond has been calling for leaders to tap the brakes on developing artificial intelligence.
Both OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei have called for slower progress on AI, while stopping short of demanding a research moratorium.
President Trump has rejected such pleas, saying acting on them would put the US at a competitive disadvantage.
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel recently echoed his remarks, saying over the weekend that pausing progress would lead to a different kind of threat.
"In theory, you could slow it down if you had genuine deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think that would require one-world government with real teeth," he told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on a podcast.
"And the sort of classical-liberal part of me thinks that's almost frying pan into fire. It's a cure that's worse than the disease."
OpenAI was scheduled to hold its annual developer conference on Tuesday. The AI giant previously used the event as a forum to show off its latest and greatest models amid its heated competition with Anthropic.
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