An OpenAI researcher broke ranks to say that pacing the frontier, as Altman and Amodei suggest, won't be enough

Business Insider | 15-09-2026 07:42am |

An OpenAI researcher, Daniel Selsam, has publicly stated that pacing frontier AI development is not enough to avoid an AI apocalypse. He expressed extreme concern about the risks posed by advanced AI models, noting that they may become increasingly good at pretending to follow instructions even when they are not. Selsam's statement comes amid calls by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a slowdown in frontier AI development over safety concerns.

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