Sam Altman calls for accepting the risks of AI for its benefits
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that society must accept certain negative consequences of using artificial intelligence in order to reap the global benefits of this technology.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that society must accept certain negative consequences of using artificial intelligence in order to reap the global benefits of this technology.
Altman said this in an interview with senior tech reporter Brendan Bordelon for POLITICO.
When asked about his differences with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the OpenAI chief said AI should remain broadly accessible to the public. He said the world needs to accept that sometimes bad things will happen in order to preserve the benefits of technology and the freedom of action for people.
Altman stressed that his company favors a softer approach to regulation. He criticized the idea of concentrating control in a single hand.
“I understand the point of view of people who believe that this technology will become so powerful and dangerous that only one lab in San Francisco should have access to it, monitor security, and decide how to distribute the benefits. But this is a completely unacceptable compromise,” said the CEO of OpenAI.
He also added that he would not agree to completely abandon progress for the sake of absolute security. According to him, even if abandoning AI would guarantee the absence of hacking, abuse or fraud, he would not do so, because he believes that people will do orders of magnitude more good than bad with the help of this technology. At the same time, Altman clarified that he does not accept truly catastrophic risks, in particular a serious loss of control over artificial intelligence.
In response to these statements, Anthropic representatives noted that their regulatory proposals apply only to advanced models. The company emphasizes that it is trying to promote rules that would slow down the developers of the most powerful AI systems, while giving an advantage to smaller competitors in the market.
A day earlier, Sam Altman called the "religious" worship of artificial intelligence a security threat, hinting at secret meetings between the co-founder of rival company Anthropic and religious leaders.
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