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OpenAI's Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki propose an international AI safety body empowered to pause frontier model development

AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Creator Prakash argues travel restrictions targeting Chinese scientists make a proposed global AI safety organization unfeasible"

Story Overview

OpenAI's recent plan calls for an eventual international body that could coordinate frontier AI work across borders and even pause development when safety lags. Creator Prakash counters that travel restrictions now hitting Chinese scientists would leave any such group missing essential voices from the start, turning coordination into an empty exercise.

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Riki Parikh
Bindu Reddy
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀
Prakash
Rob Wiblin
Michaël Trazzi
Cas (Stephen Casper)
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Ethan Mollick
Gary Marcus
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Riki Parikh@rikiparikh

"We have long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. ... One goal of such an organization should be to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed, so societal resilience, safety, and alignment can keep pace."

Sam Altman@sama

Here is our current plan for OpenAI:

https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/

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Policy Risk

Travel curbs reshape who can join

Prakash notes that bans targeting Chinese researchers create an immediate participation gap, which could sideline key expertise before any formal structure exists.

Open Question

Coordination feasibility stays murky

No details yet show how an international body would operate or enforce pauses if major players remain excluded by travel rules.

Sentiment

Many users dismissed OpenAI and Anthropic's calls for an international AI safety body to slow frontier development as cynical virtue-signaling or a ploy to protect their oligopoly instead of a genuine slowdown.

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Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀@peterwildeford

OpenAI joins Anthropic in thinking pausing may be needed 👀

"there should be an international organization that helps [...] make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed"

Sam Altman@sama

Here is our current plan for OpenAI:

https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/

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Rob Wiblin@robertwiblin

Anthropic, OpenAI and Demis are all in favour of preparing a coordinate pause of frontier AI development.

Skate to where the puck will be people, not where it is now. This is a fast puck.

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Ethan Mollick@emollick

Both Anthropic and OpenAI mention the possibilities of slowing AI development in their latest "what comes next" in AI posts, but say they need to be an action coordinated across the entire world using as-yet-unidentified methods.

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

Important and noteworthy that this year we've had Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind), Amodei (Anthropic) and Altman (OpenAI) calling for a coordinated slowdown, the latter two backed up by company announcements. That's the leadership of the three leading AGI companies in the world.

A moment is coming about. There are a lot of unresolved questions about how this would work in practice, but it could be the most important problem in the world to solve right now - let's rise to the moment.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

1. Pausing until we had a much firmer idea of how to make AI safe—and well-aligned with human values—might well be a good idea. but 2. I trust neither of these companies, but fear that both will say “what about China”, if push comes to shove, and never actually agree to pause.

So it comes off to me as pre-IPO marketing, in effort to address public backlash.

Ethan Mollick@emollick

Both Anthropic and OpenAI mention the possibilities of slowing AI development in their latest "what comes next" in AI posts, but say they need to be an action coordinated across the entire world using as-yet-unidentified methods.

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Cas (Stephen Casper)@StephenLCasper

Anthropic and OpenAI are publicly pointing out how having the option to slow down AI would offer a potentially critical form of optionality in the future. The correct response for any policymaker should be "Damn, this is serious. How can I help build that capacity?"

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Rob Wiblin@robertwiblin

Hop in we're imposing a temporary moratorium on fully autonomous recursive self-improvement. 🙌

(New piece by @sama and @merettm.)

https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/

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Bindu Reddy@bindureddy

OpenAI and Anthropic want to pause global frontier model development

China would never agree If they did they would forever be behind these closed model providers 🤷‍♀️

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Michaël Trazzi@MichaelTrazzi

Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki wrote today in a blogpost that "[they] have long believed there should ultimately be an international organization" whose goals would include "tak[ing] coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed"

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

Very pleased indeed to see this from OpenAI too. Let's get going!

"As frontier AI development continues, we expect national and global coordination to become more important. We have long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. Cooperation and shared safety standards are an important part of the path forward, especially because the incentives around commercial and national competition are hard to escape. One goal of such an organization should be to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed, so societal resilience, safety, and alignment can keep pace."

Sam Altman@sama

Here is our current plan for OpenAI:

https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

‘“If we can, maybe it would be good to have a slightly slower pace than we’re currently predicting,” Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis said, “so that we can get this right societally.” Anthropic’s Dario Amodei agreed: “I would prefer that. I think that would be better for the world.” Even JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon — hardly an AI doomer — suggested that the rollout of AI might need to be slowed down to “save society” from huge civil unrest.

In another panel, Hassabis went even further. Asked whether he would advocate for a pause in AI development if every company and country joined in, his response was simple: “I think so.”

But while Hassabis and Amodei admitted that a slowdown would be preferable, they also insisted that they can’t do it alone. Such a pause would require “international collaboration,” Hassabis said, with Amodei noting that “it’s very hard to have an enforceable agreement where they slow down and we slow down.”‘

Transformer reporting from Davos 2026 (January) https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-ceos-want-to-slow-down-the-worlds-davos-demis-hassabis-dario-amodei https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/the-day-after-agi/ (Video)

Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

Important and noteworthy that this year we've had Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind), Amodei (Anthropic) and Altman (OpenAI) calling for a coordinated slowdown, the latter two backed up by company announcements. That's the leadership of the three leading AGI companies in the world.

A moment is coming about. There are a lot of unresolved questions about how this would work in practice, but it could be the most important problem in the world to solve right now - let's rise to the moment.

Links in reply

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Joern Stoehler ⏹️🔸@JStoehler

@peterwildeford Huh. That's more enthusiasm from AI companies for a global pause than I median-expected to see this year.

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

“ As frontier AI development continues, we expect national and global coordination to become more important. We have long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. Cooperation and shared safety standards are an important part of the path forward, especially because the incentives around commercial and national competition are hard to escape. One goal of such an organization should be to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed, so societal resilience, safety, and alignment can keep pace. OpenAI (Altman, Pachocki) https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/

Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. The Anthropic Institute will conduct research—in collaboration with many others—and take actions to help build the systems that a credible slowdown or pause would require. These systems would enable frontier AI developers to verify that others globally have actually stopped or slowed, and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret. If such systems existed, we expect that we would slow down or temporarily pause, if other developers at or near the frontier also did so in a verifiable manner.” Anthropic Institute, June 2026.

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

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Jacques@JacquesThibs

@peterwildeford Until I see actual action in this direction to make it happen (they have the resources), then I’ll file this under “wishful thinking but won’t actually do it” at best. We’ve heard this all before…

Also I wouldn’t say “slowing frontier development” is equal to a pause.

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Kirk Patrick Miller@Chaos2Cured

@emollick @dwallacewells Let me translate…

“We have an IPO, and we have no moat, so we are asking the world to agree to make us trillions by kneecapping our competitors…”

Are you freaking kidding me?

Are we goi f to pretend this is okay.

WTF.

Liars. Through and through. •

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. The Anthropic Institute will conduct research—in collaboration with many others—and take actions to help build the systems that a credible slowdown or pause would require. These systems would enable frontier AI developers to verify that others globally have actually stopped or slowed, and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret. If such systems existed, we expect that we would slow down or temporarily pause, if other developers at or near the frontier also did so in a verifiable manner.” Anthropic Institute, June 2026.

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

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Dirty Indy 🟥🟧🟨@cobracommanduhr

@peterwildeford No new breakthroughs. These labs have gassed out

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Tom Moore@junogsp7

Gary, scroll my highlights for posts that align with your well-justified concerns, including recent ones to the VP and Treasury Secretary ahead of their Wednesday bailout meeting spun as offering taxpayers equity in these cash incinerators, which have no near-, medium-, or long-term path to profitability.

Wait, maybe Sam Bankman-Fried, as part of his pardon agreement, can mint some 💩 coins to finance this boondoggle?

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shogo@imshogok

The constraint isn't method—it's incentive alignment. A lab that slows unilaterally loses talent, compute allocation, and funding to labs that don't. They're describing a prisoner's dilemma while asking for a solution that requires solving the prisoner's dilemma first. Coordination only works if defection costs more than compliance.

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Prakash@8teAPi

hard to have an international organization when Chinese scientists are starting to be put on travel bans. You’d end up with the apparatchiks wasting your time

Riki Parikh@rikiparikh

"We have long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. ... One goal of such an organization should be to make it possible for the world to take coordinated action, including slowing frontier development when needed, so societal resilience, safety, and alignment can keep pace."

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