OpenAI is actively weighing whether to slow the pace of its cutting-edge AI development, and CEO Sam Altman wants rival frontier labs to follow suit. The consideration comes amid rapid rollouts across the industry, including major leaps such as and the broader GPT-5 and GPT-6 update pipeline, which have stoked growing internal and public unease about catastrophic safety risks.
According to a report from , Altman told employees during an all-hands meeting this week that OpenAI could potentially coordinate a voluntary development pause or slowdown alongside other AI labs. However, Altman acknowledged that reaching an industry-wide consensus may prove difficult, as competing companies might refuse to decelerate their own roadmaps.