Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis endorse Amodei's call for independent oversight inside AI labs; Altman also rules out a 2026 OpenAI IPO.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and former DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis have at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposals, agreeing on the need for independent oversight inside AI labs. Altman additionally told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public this year, citing safety concerns, a decision he had already shared internally in June. Google researcher Peyman Milanfar pushed back on the underlying recursive self-improvement assumption, arguing such feedback loops are inherently unstable and that stability itself is the real speed limit.
- Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call for independent AI lab oversight
- Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year, citing safety concerns
- Milanfar argues recursive self-improvement is naive because feedback loops are unstable
- OpenAI's financials may also not support an IPO compared to Anthropic's
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman, Musk, and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposals, all agreeing on the need for independent oversight inside AI labs. Musk has been sounding the alarm on AI risks for years, so his support isn't exactly a surprise.
Altman also told Fortune that OpenAI won't go public this year, citing safety concerns. He had already shared that decision internally in June. Another reading: OpenAI's financials simply don't support an IPO right now, especially compared to Anthropic's. Both could be true.
Not everyone agrees. Google researcher Peyman Milanfar pushed back, arguing that recursive self-improvement (RSI) is a naive assumption because the feedback loops are inherently unstable. The harder a system optimizes itself, the deeper it falls into blind spots, and reliable evidence only comes from the real world, not benchmarks. That makes Amodei's "speed limit" unnecessary, Milanfar argues: "Systems that reliably improve themselves will be governed, damped, slow, and bounded by margins that look wasteful. Because stability is the speed limit."
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