What is a decel? The term that encapsulates the dueling ideologies in AI

Because the details around his firing remain murky, a number of theories have started doing the rounds online. One of the most prominent views suggests that OpenAI is split into two camps: “accelerationists”, who want to usher in artificial general intelligence (basically a machine that can think like a human), and “decelerationists”, who worry about the existential risks to AI.