OpenAI paused frontier training while the first major AI harms will likely come from malicious actors using unguarded Chinese open-weight models for cyberattacks and fraud, not from autonomous AI itself. OpenAI appears positioned to blame these models while Anthropic keeps its most advanced systems proprietary.
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OpenAI announced it is voluntarily pausing some of the frontier reinforcement learning training that it's doing.
What's going to happen next is the first really bad AI tragedies will start. It won't be AI doing it. It'll be people, you know, who otherwise didn't have the power are going to use one of the Chinese models to do things, mostly viruses or cyberattacks or bank fraud. But they couldn't have done it before AI. Now they're empowered to do it. So I think OpenAI is getting ready for that. I think OpenAI wants to be prepared for whenever that event happens to say, look, that's because the Chinese OpenWeight models are unguardrailed. And there's a new Quen model with no guardrails whatsoever. It's a small model, but it's still completely flapping in the breeze. And so they want to get ahead of the PR and say, look, we have been focused on only releasing what's safe and guardrailing it in preparation for that inevitable outcome. And so everybody will be finger-pointing at the Chinese. But I think for an entrepreneur, last summer to this summer has been the era in human history where you can get the very best AI to get ahead, to build something, to create something. Now, uh, Mythos 2 is done, but it's not out, but they're using it inside Anthropic and it's building Mythos 3. It'll build 4, 5, 6, 7 very, very quickly now inside their walls, but they're not gonna release any of that. Using it internally to get ahead of everybody else is more important to them than giving it to the world. So that's what's gonna happen next.
