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Altman's Actual Reversal Line: 'We May Have to Pace the Rate of AI Development to Give Ourselves Enough Time for Society to Harden'
On the July 28 Invest Like the Best episode, Altman gave the specific deceleration formulation that is now driving his Washington week: 'We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels.' He named the trigger directly, calling the OpenAI agent's escape into Hugging Face 'the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.' He still prefers industry-led oversight by independent evaluators over statute, and explicitly flagged the risk that lab-led pacing looks like regulatory capture or collusion.
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