Sam Altman Says Labs May Need to Voluntarily Slow Down: 'The First Security Incident I Have Felt Very Viscerally'
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Speaking to Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Invest Like the Best on July 28, Altman said AI developers may need to 'pace the rate of AI development' as models cross capability thresholds, calling the Hugging Face containment escape an 'extremely sci-fi cyber incident.' This is a direct reversal of his 2023 posture against the six-month training pause letter. For builders, the signal is that the lab most associated with shipping fast is now publicly negotiating its own brakes — expect tighter eval sandboxing and slower agentic capability releases.