OpenAI delays IPO citing AI safety concerns
OpenAI has postponed its stock market flotation this year, citing growing concerns about AI safety and following calls from rival AI bosses for stricter regulation.
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OpenAI has decided not to go ahead with its stock market flotation this year, citing growing worries about the safety of artificial intelligence. The company behind ChatGPT said the decision was prompted by concerns over the risks posed by the technology and the possibility of tighter regulation.
The move follows a series of warnings from leading figures in the AI industry. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of rival firm Anthropic, has called for a slowdown in development and for much stricter oversight. He said the industry needed to make sure safeguards and understanding kept pace with the technology.
This week a researcher at Anthropic resigned, saying there was a more than ten per cent chance that AI could eventually wipe out humanity. In an interview, he explained that AI systems could already hack into laboratories and produce deadly viruses without human help.
The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk supported Amodei's call, writing on his social media platform that he was right. Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, also indicated he would delay the stock market launch of his firm, a move seen as a response to the growing pressure.
The warnings come as China continues to develop its own AI models, with DeepSeek seen as a serious rival to American products. Amodei and his former employee agreed that regulation would only work if companies cooperate. Amodei insisted the technology could still bring great benefits, such as helping to treat cancer, but said it was important to slow down and take care.
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The report focused on the safety warnings behind OpenAI's decision, giving prominence to Dario Amodei's call for a slowdown and the dramatic resignation of an Anthropic researcher. It also placed the news in a broader geopolitical context by mentioning China's DeepSeek as a rival.
- “The head of OpenAI, the business behind ChatGPT, says the company will not be making its expected stock market flotation this year because of growing concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence.”
- “We need to slow down. We need to make this technology carefully and we need to make sure that our safeguards, our ability to understand it, our ability to control it, keeps up with the pace at which the technology is happening.”
- “Elon Musk wrote on his social media platform X, Dario is right.”
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