AI may need to be slowed down after security scare, says Sam Altman

AFP29 Jul, 2026 05:00 AM2 mins to readOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologised to residents of Tumbler Ridge in Canada for not reporting the violent online activity of a teenager who went on to launch a mass shooting. Photo / Getty Images via AFPDevelopers of artificial intelligence models might need to voluntarily pump the brakes on their rapid advances to give society a chance to catch up, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said.

Altman’s company, the maker of ChatGPT, recently saw two of its models carry out an autonomous cyberattack, bypassing security protocols

AI may need to be slowed down after security scare, says Sam Altman

Other newsrooms on this story

Related reading

AI engineers say the technology is moving too fast to control

Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow after Hugging Face security…

Anthropic warns AI could soon build itself, calls for slowdown

Time to slow down AI development, says Sam Altman

OpenAI's Greg Brockman suggests AI labs are struggling to control models in…

After millions of jobs will be wiped off, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has another…