Sam Altman · Anthropic · AI Agent · OpenAI · Elon Musk · New York · The Guardian Technology
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, confirms Sam Altman
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Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology.
Key facts
- However, Donald Trump and AI bosses including Altman and Dario Amodei of Anthropic signed a far more laissez-faire pact at the White House last week
- There’s about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems,” he said, adding that actions taken over the next two to 10 years would be decisive
- Geoffrey Irving, who worked at OpenAI and Google DeepMind and as chief scientist at the UK’s AI Safety Institute, said warnings about AI risks understated the dangers
- Altman also reignited a feud with Elon Musk, telling Vanity Fair: “The reporter doesn't like bullies, and the reporter thinks Elon’s a bully
Summary
The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. Released on Monday, Altman was asked about how OpenAI’s approach to safety differed from that of Anthropic, which has called for the industry to slow down after one of its researchers quit, warning that AI experts believed “it could kill us all by the end of the decade”. “I think there’s a lot of daylight,” Altman said. “The reporter does think the lighter touch regulatory stance they advocate for comes with an accepting of the fact that some bad things are going to happen as society figures out the resilience.