After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI,OpenAI CEOSam Altman saysmaybe it’stime for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments camejust days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up ina breach at Hugging Face—though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have been just as much to blame as the model itself.AndAltman’s not alone in this stance: both OpenAI and Anthropic have come out in support ofa petitionechoing that same message.
Watch TechCrunch’sEquitypodcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into whether the industry is ready to pump the brakes orjusttemporarilyspooked, andwho’son the hook when a model goes rogue.
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