‘AI Could Go Very Wrong’: Sam Altman Reveals 2 Major Risks
Altman urged slower deployment, shared safety standards and international coordination as he warned that one lab or country could gain too much power.
- On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in a post that losing "control of the future to AI" is "unacceptable," emphasizing that technology must serve humanity, not the reverse.
- This warning follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for collective action to slow frontier development; Altman joined Amodei on Saturday with SpaceX's Elon Musk and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis expressing interest.
- Altman predicted two major risks: losing control of the future and excessive power concentration by one country or lab. He reiterated his team is "unapologetically on Team Humanity" to avoid dystopian outcomes.
- David Sacks, chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, criticized the slowdown calls, telling firms to act responsibly without "pretending you need anyone else's permission."
- Altman stated OpenAI would "welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements" and called for "shared standards for misalignment, monitoring, and safety" to enable industry collaboration.
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Sam Altman issued a new statement on his social networks where he indicated that he could "lose control of the future" in the hands of the AI.Yesterday he had announced that his company would not be on the stock market this year.
The head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, warned of the threat of antitopia in the event of control of a powerful artificial intelligence by one person. The head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, expressed concern about a possible antitopic scenario, conveys to RIA News. In his view, the danger lies in the possibility that a powerful artificial intelligence may be used by one person or organization to impose its world view. "If an unusually powerful AI is used by on…
Sam Altman has warned of two main ways in which AI could go “very wrong”. Loss of control over the future of AI: This is something Altman has described as “unacceptable”. He said that AI should “always serve people” and that, to ensure this, safety and harmonization techniques should be kept ahead of the development of the models’ capabilities. Concentration of power: Altman also warned of a world where the power of AI would be largely concentra…
Altman wrote that there's no need to wait for the government to stop, and that a single lab with too much power is as dangerous as an uncontrolled AI.
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