EQUIPThe Verge · 32m ago
Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asserts that the immense benefits of AI outweigh the inevitable emergence of societal risks. Executives should prepare for a landscape where systemic hacks and scams are viewed as acceptable trade-offs for exponential productivity gains.
- 01Altman identifies cyberattacks and financial scams as expected costs of rapid artificial intelligence adoption
- 02OpenAI maintains that total societal benefits will surpass potential damages by several orders of magnitude
- 03Leadership must anticipate ongoing security vulnerabilities as a permanent feature of the AI transition
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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, […]