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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview on Sunday that the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are enough to justify accepting some risks and suggest that the public should continue to have broad access to the emerging technology.
“We think the world should accept that some bad things happen for the benefit of this technology and the people who have agency,” Altman said in an interview with Politico’s technology newsletter, Decoded.
Altman said he thought there was “a lot of light” between his vision for how AI should be regulated and the prospect of OpenAI’s main rival in the frontier model space, Anthropic, whose CEO Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in AI development. Others have argued for centralizing AI research to make it more secure.
“I don’t agree, but I understand the point of view of people who say, ‘This technology is going to become so powerful, and it’s so dangerous, that just one lab in San Francisco should have it and make sure nothing bad happens, and somehow figure out how to distribute the benefits,'” Altman said.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he favors a lighter regulatory approach to AI development. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Altman said this was a “totally unacceptable compromise” that goes against the “lighter regulatory stance” supported by OpenAI.
“I wouldn’t agree to say, ‘We’ll make sure that there’s no major hack, that there’s no misuse of this technology, that there’s no scam, that there’s no other bad thing that can happen,'” Altman said.
“Because I think people will do an awful lot – orders of magnitude more – good things than bad things,” he added.
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Altman acknowledged the need for some safeguards and pledged to allow some third-party oversight at OpenAI. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Altman’s remarks come after he agreed with Amodei that pioneering labs need to “walk the frontier” of AI development to ensure they can mitigate the risks that AI models advance to the point that they escape human control.
The OpenAI CEO also agreed with the Anthropic leader’s suggestion that independent third parties would have employee-like access to border labs to monitor their work, ensure AI alignment during model training, and report security incidents.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said pioneering labs must “walk the frontier” of AI model development to ensure alignment. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Altman has previously outlined his main areas of concern in AI development, writing last month in an article on
“First, we could lose control of the future to AI. This is unacceptable; we are undoubtedly part of Team Humanity, and AI must always serve people. To ensure this, we need ways to ensure that alignment and safety techniques stay ahead of advances in model capabilities,” Altman wrote.
“Second, we could end up in a world with too much concentration of power. If an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impose their worldview on everyone, the results could be extremely dystopian,” he added.
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Reuters contributed to this report.
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