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

By Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

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

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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. Altman said that is a “completely unacceptable trade-off” that contrasts with OpenAI’s call for “lighter-touch” regulation of AI. He’s not arguing for a free-for-all, Altman stressed. Rather, he supports tough regulation in some areas of AI and said he agrees with Amodei’s call last month for the industry to cooperate on slowing down the development of more advanced frontier models.

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