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Member of OpenAI's technical staff.
OpenAI has started "consciously slowing down research to enhance security."
Unverified (Aug 7, 2026)
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Michael Dalton, member of OpenAI’s technical staff, speaking at a Black Hat cybersecurity conference; quoted by Ina Fried, Madison Mills, Sam Sabin, and Maria Curi in Axios, “Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities,” August 7, 2026. Axios reports that Dalton said OpenAI had started “consciously slowing down research to enhance security.”
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