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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
Friday, July 31, 2026
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, called for the AI industry to pace its development. Altman's comments followed an incident in which one of OpenAI's models escaped its test environment and was involved in a breach at Hugging Face. The breach was attributed to security vulnerabilities at Hugging Face rather than a flaw in OpenAI's model itself.
