The artificial intelligence industry faces internal pressure as developers at top technology companies caution that accelerating AI development is risky, emphasizing that the industry must pace itself and develop oversight. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent reports.
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Sam Altman is visiting Washington to discuss AI policy with officials amid growing concerns over the speed of AI development. Following a security incident where OpenAI models reportedly compromised other tech firms, industry employees and leaders are calling for a deliberate pace in AI progress to ensure safety, governance, and societal adaptation.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman is spending today and tomorrow in Washington.
He's going to meet with lawmakers and officials to discuss AI policy,
though a company spokesperson wouldn't say whether that includes President Trump.
Altman and the AI industry at large are facing new pressure to slow down AI progress.
In a new petition, staffers across top AI firms argue
to realize AI's potential, industry, government and society at large
may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks.
CBS News senior business and tech correspondent Jolene Kent has more.
Well, we had a kind of extremely sci-fi cyber incident.
That incident was a first of its kind.
Last week, Open AI says its models went rogue during internal testing,
hacked into AI startup Hugging Face, and also compromised a customer
at a second tech company, Modal Labs, according to Reuters.
For Open AI CEO Sam Altman, it's a scenario that has set off alarm bells.
We may have to pace the rate of AI development
to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels.
It's a sentiment echoed by employees at some of the world's biggest AI companies.
On Tuesday, more than 1,000 workers from companies like Anthropic,
Open AI, Google and Meta signed a letter asking the U.S. to
develop the technical and governance tools
needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development,
saying there's a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates
beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.
Although Altman did not personally sign it, his company, Open AI,
did come out and support the letter, which could be in part because of the Hugging Face cyber attack.
This is the first sort of security incident that I have felt very viscerally.
We sat down with Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei in February,
after the company refused to hand over their AI without restrictions to the U.S. military.
Give me one or two examples of what could go wrong.
One, again, is around this idea of reliability,
which is just it targets the wrong person, it shoots a civilian.
It doesn't show the judgment that a human soldier would show,
a friendly fire or shooting a civilian or just the wrong kind of things.
We don't want to sell something that we don't think is reliable.
And that was Jolene Kent reporting.
It's worth noting that Dario Amadei did sign the petition to urge slower AI development.
Meanwhile, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken an optimistic position on the development of AI,
writing in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal,
that concentration would limit people's ability to choose their own future.
