OpenAI's Altman says AI benefits warrant accepting some risks
Altman said OpenAI will accept some misuse and hacks because people will do far more good than bad with AI.
- OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told Decoded that AI benefits justify accepting some risks, distinguishing his firm's regulatory stance from rival Anthropic on the technology's accessibility and control.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently advocated that the industry should 'pace the frontier' to mitigate dangers, warning in September that advanced models could exhibit 'self-preserving behaviors' and 'resist shutdown.'
- 'I think there's a lot of daylight,' Altman said, rejecting centralized control and calling that model 'a completely unacceptable trade-off' restricting public access to AI benefits.
- Despite Altman's stated philosophy, OpenAI recently endorsed a bipartisan House proposal requiring outside safety evaluators and supported new state laws imposing stricter safety requirements than previously favored.
- President Donald Trump has largely dismissed calls for new restrictions, arguing they would hinder American companies competing against Chinese rivals while maintaining that existing Justice Department agencies provide sufficient safeguards.
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Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, […]
Altman accepts that AI will bring fraud and attacks if avoiding all abuses requires too much control over technology
OpenAI Executive Director argued that technology should remain accessible to the general public
Sam Altman, Director General of OpenAI, pleads for a more relaxed regulation of artificial intelligence, even if he admits that the development of technology will bring computer attacks, scams and other forms of abuse. However, he argues that AI benefits will be much greater than negative effects, statements that have caused harsh reactions from industry critics.
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