Sam Altman
Role at the time: Chief executive of OpenAI speaking in a public X post.
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Altman supported a federal framework for frontier-AI safety requirements and argued that competitive pressure should not allow capabilities to outrun alignment and monitoring.
“We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. ... No amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring.”