That's one legit interpretation, but 'the people working on this are deeply unsettled and truly want to pace because they're afraid of where we're headed' should remain another.

i think thats maybe part of it. Part of it is maybe they truly went too fast which caused the incidents. They hype it up but i don't see this different as any other industry. One could build a house too fast and then scream "houses are dangerous" when it inevetiably catches on fire from negligent practices.

So we now know without any ambiguity that the OpenAI agents hacked the us government and multiple other websites.

Maybe.. just maybe.. it is because of this that they want to pause?

Once upon a time a journalist was (almost) on the hook for "hacking" a gov't site by using the browser's "View source" function.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30319029