Mira Murati Says Frontier AI Needs Continuous Human-Machine Collaboration, Rejects 'Humans in the Loop' as Sufficient
Former OpenAI CTO and Thinking Machines Lab CEO spoke Friday in San Francisco, advocating continuous human-machine collaboration over checkpoint-style oversight.
app.buzzsumo.comMira Murati, co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, told attendees at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco on Friday that frontier AI must operate like a tandem bike, with humans and machines collaborating throughout development. Murati, the former OpenAI CTO, rejected the phrase “humans in the loop” as adequate for safety.
She said the term implies a single checkpoint where oversight ends once approval is granted.
“Both people are pedaling, but when you’re going up a hill, whoever is stronger is pedaling harder — but both hands are on the wheel,” Murati said. ” Murati added that AI’s future is “not a predestined outcome,” dismissing forecasts of either dystopia or utopia as oversimplified. She called for institutional checks and balances rather than individual authority in governance.
Benzinga reported the remarks from the San Francisco event.
