Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman , Musk , and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposals , all agreeing on the need for independent oversight inside AI labs. Musk has been sounding the alarm on AI risks for years , so his support isn't exactly a surprise.
Altman also told Fortune that OpenAI won't go public this year, citing safety concerns. He had already shared that decision internally in June . Another reading: OpenAI's financials simply don't support an IPO right now, especially compared to Anthropic's. Both could be true.
Not everyone agrees. Google researcher Peyman Milanfar pushed back , arguing that recursive self-improvement (RSI) is a naive assumption because the feedback loops are inherently unstable. The harder a system optimizes itself, the deeper it falls into blind spots, and reliable evidence only comes from the real world, not benchmarks. That makes Amodei's "speed limit" unnecessary, Milanfar argues: "Systems that reliably improve themselves will be governed, damped, slow, and bounded by margins that look wasteful. Because stability is the speed limit." Ad Ad
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