# OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought

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Published: 2026-08-21T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
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“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”

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