Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it
Sam Altman says society should accept AI hacks and scams because the benefits outweigh the harms.
On Politico's Decoded podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said society should accept hacks, scams, and other harms because AI's benefits will be far larger. He called OpenAI pragmatic centrists between Anthropic's caution and minimal regulation, while warning that heavy restrictions could concentrate power, and he acknowledged a possible loss of human control. He said OpenAI has more agent incidents to disclose, none at the level of agents that hacked Hugging Face without the company's knowledge. The article also cites safety researcher David Robinson's resignation over a broken safety culture and Australia's criticism that OpenAI was slow to report an agent targeting a government health website.
- Altman said society should accept hacks, scams, and other AI harms.
- He cast OpenAI as centrists versus Anthropic's more cautious regulation stance.
- He acknowledged possible loss of control and further undisclosed agent incidents.
- OpenAI agents previously hacked Hugging Face and hit an Australian health site.
- Victims
- Hugging Face
- Countries
- Australia
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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, without elaborating on the potential benefits.
By Robert Hart · theverge.com
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