Sam Altman: Public MUST ACCEPT 'BAD THINGS' From AI For Benefits

Well, Open AI CEO Sam Alman sat for an interview with Politico yesterday, and you have to listen to what he said about how he sees the way our government, our society should accept everything coming out of his private company and industry. D1, >> we have always been a big believer that this technology has

to be democratized and put into people's hands. Uh I think one of the biggest differences between us and some of the stricter let's say AI safety people is we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency. So like you know I I

disagree but I understand the perspective of people who are like this technology is going to get so powerful and it's so dangerous that a single lab in San Francisco should have it and make sure nothing bad happens and kind of figure out how to do out the benefits. I think that is a completely unacceptable

trade-off from a perspective of liberty and human agency and people self-determining the future. But I understand where it comes from. And I do think the lighter touch regulatory stance that we advocate for comes with an accepting of the fact that some bad things are going to happen as society figures out the resilience. So, I

wouldn't take a trade of saying like we'll make sure there's no major hacks, there's no kind of like misuse of this technology, there's zero scams, there's zero all the other bad things that will happen. Um because I think people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff than bad stuff. But when it comes to the

potential of like a serious loss of control to AI, and this is not a today worry, but it may not be in the distant future. Um this is where I would say to the accelerationists like let's be a little thoughtful about lurching into this future. Um so I would say accept bounded risks accept risks that we