Altman's actual deceleration line, and the trigger he named.

On the July 28 Invest Like the Best episode: "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. That's a direct reversal of his 2023 posture against the six-month pause letter, and it's more honest about the collusion problem than I expected.