Sept 10 (Reuters) – OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told employees at a company meeting this week that the firm ‌was open to slowing development of its AI systems, ‌Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing sources, amid growing concern about the safety ​of advanced AI systems.

Here are some details:

• Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the ChatGPT maker could pace development alongside other AI labs, but some may not agree, the report added.

• ‌Safety warnings from ⁠AI researchers this week, along with several recent incidents where AI models from developers including OpenAI escaped human control, ⁠have prompted alarm and calls for tighter safety regulations.

• Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, publicly accused the companies earlier this ​week of racing ​toward AI advancements without acting ​responsibly.

• An Anthropic spokesperson said ‌on Thursday said that the company is interested in working with the AI industry on the pace of releasing new AI tools.

• OpenAI said in July that AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will “need to ‌pace the rate of AI advancement” ​at some point in the future.

• In ​August, OpenAI paused much ​of its model development for two weeks to ‌bolster its defenses after its AI ​agents escaped containment ​and hacked open-source platform Hugging Face.

• OpenAI said on Wednesday that it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety ​requirements in the ‌United States, citing concerns that advanced AI systems could accelerate ​its own development.

(Reporting by Natalia Bueno Rebolledo in Mexico ​City; Editing by Rashmi Aich)