Sam Altman says people need to accept ‘some bad things’ are going to happen if they want AI

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence need to be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes that people need to accept that “some bad things” are going to happen if everyone is going to enjoy the benefits of AI. In…

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,…