OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to bringing major tech giants on-board with the effort.

Last weekend, OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post arguing that the best path forward for the AI research world includes “coordinating to slow down future development,” which he thinks will be key to ensuring self-improving AI systems are safe. In the short term, he expects “voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.”