Altman Pitches Three AI Safety Endgames with a Year to Choose, the Information Says
Summary
Sam Altman told OpenAI staff last week that the company has a year to pick one of three AI safety endgames, The Information reports. He described an IAEA-style global watchdog as his preferred option and called a single lab racing ahead to "melt everyone else's GPUs" terrible. He called the choice "pacing 2.0."
Key Points
- The Information reports Altman calls the lab-merger option the "Demis plan," named for DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, modeled on CERN.
- Altman says "pacing 2.0" must include a "speed limit" or stopping point for self-improving AI.
- Anthropic's Jack Clark says the world has "a small number of years" to act on safety and cites an intelligence cap.