{"id":254827,"date":"2026-07-31T17:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/sam-altman-isnt-the-only-one-who-wants-to-pump-the-brakes-on-ai-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:26:32","slug":"sam-altman-isnt-the-only-one-who-wants-to-pump-the-brakes-on-ai-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/sam-altman-isnt-the-only-one-who-wants-to-pump-the-brakes-on-ai-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI,\u00a0OpenAI CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/28\/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Altman says<\/a>\u00a0maybe it\u2019s\u00a0time for the AI industry to \u201cpace\u201d itself. The comments came\u00a0just days after one of OpenAI\u2019s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/27\/openais-hugging-face-breach-has-reignited-the-debate-over-alignment-and-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a breach at Hugging Face<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0though as Equity\u2019s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have been just as much to blame as the model itself.\u00a0And\u00a0Altman\u2019s not alone in this stance: both OpenAI and Anthropic have come out in support of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacingthefrontier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a petition<\/a>\u00a0echoing that same message.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch TechCrunch\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into whether the industry is ready to pump the brakes or\u00a0just\u00a0temporarily\u00a0spooked, and\u00a0who\u2019s\u00a0on the hook when a model goes rogue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/sam-altman-isnt-the-only-one-who-wants-to-pump-the-brakes-on-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI,\u00a0OpenAI CEO\u00a0Sam Altman says\u00a0maybe it\u2019s\u00a0time for the AI industry to \u201cpace\u201d itself. The comments came\u00a0just days after one of OpenAI\u2019s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in\u00a0a breach at Hugging Face\u00a0\u2014\u00a0though as Equity\u2019s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}