Sam Altman on China beating US in AI: Progress should be slower for safety

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a stark warning, saying China could surpass the United Sates in artificial intelligence if American companies fail to act responsibly. The comments made by Altman comes after agreeing with Dario Amodei’s view that AI poses existential risks including the possibility of ‘killing all of us’. Altman also stressed that slowing development is not about stopping progress, but it is about ensuing safety and alignment and keeping pace with capabilities. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Altman said the wool deserves confidence that US frontier labs will act responsibly as AI progress accelerates. “Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot,” he wrote.