Nathaniel Whittemore
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50,365 appearances
198 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
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Notably, the report was entirely focused on misuse of haiku, sonnet, and opus models.
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With only a single case of distillation related to Fable and Mythos.
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Now, speaking of the changing winds around AI risk, Sam Altman has told staff he's open to an AI slowdown.
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During an all-hands meeting this week, Altman told his team that OpenAI could pace the development of new AI models.
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However, he said this would likely happen in coordination with other AI labs and expressed concerns that not all rivals would agree.
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These comments come after a wave of discussion about slowdown.
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following the pace of AI development that started even before Jacob Coxon's viral tweet earlier this week.
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Many OpenAI staffers signed on to the Pacing the Frontier open letter in July, and chief scientist Jacob Pachaki recently warned that recursive self-improvement amplified the case for a slowdown.
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In a blog post published last weekend, Pachaki wrote that he hopes for industry coordination and, quote, voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.
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This appears to be the first time that Altman has indicated a willingness to slow down.
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Unlike his counterpart Dario Amade at Anthropic, he did not sign the Pacing the Frontier Open Letter and had been noncommittal in public statements until very recently.
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On Tuesday, remarking on OpenAI finding a solution to a
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The Millennium Prize problem, Altman wrote, The world has extremely capable models now.
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I did not expect a result of this magnitude to happen so soon.
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We've been talking a lot about the need to pace progress to ensure safety.
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For me, this is the strongest evidence yet of the urgency.
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Alongside the addition of AI safety researcher Paul Cristiano to the board of OpenAI earlier this week, Altman's comments could indicate a coordinated industry slowdown is becoming more likely.
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Now, also in OpenAI news, the company appears to have hit a compute wall and will pause top end subscriptions as a result.
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We talked about this back when Anthropic was having all of its trouble, that this was going to be a problem coming for everyone, and it is apparently now here.
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Now, shortly after the release of GPT 6 Astra, OpenAI product leader Thibaut Sochiao posted Demand for Astra is really unprecedented.
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