Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t wait for Congress to slow down AI

Sam Altman stated that OpenAI will support federal safety requirements for frontier AI models but will not wait for antitrust exemptions or laws to be passed. The company will start writing 'explicit safety cases' before launching training runs for models with expected significant capability increases.

• OpenAI will support federal safety requirements for frontier models
• Company won't wait for antitrust exemption or law to start work
• Safety cases will be written before training runs with capability growth
• Altman named two risks: loss of control over the future and concentration of power