- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that “all the sci-fi stuff” retains him up at night time.
- The tech CEO stated it is simple to think about the place AI development might go unsuitable.
- However Altman is extra afraid of “delicate societal misalignments” than killer robots.
Ever puzzled what retains Sam Altman up at night time?
“Simple,” Altman stated on the World Authorities Summit, the place he made a digital look. “It is all the sci-fi stuff.”
The OpenAI CEO stated that science-fiction writers have discovered unbelievably inventive methods to think about what might go unsuitable with AI — they usually’ve been doing it for many years.
“I feel most of them are like comical,” Altman stated. “However there are some issues in there which might be simple to think about the place issues actually go unsuitable.”
Altman stated he is much less involved about killer robots and extra excited by “very delicate societal misalignments.”
He describes a actuality the place AI methods are being utilized in society with out evil intent, however issues nonetheless “simply go horribly unsuitable.”
Whereas Altman did not elaborate on the societal misalignments that would lead issues to go up to now south, he is expressed fears about the way forward for AI up to now.
The OpenAI CEO tweeted final February that regulation was essential to AI improvement and that the world wanted time to determine it out. Altman’s opposition to speedy AI development was suspected to be a part of his temporary firing again in November.
Since then, the CEO has been fairly quiet about these issues and hasn’t gone into specifics about what worries him.
OpenAI didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Regardless of the broader fears that maintain him up at night time, Altman stated that he believes that issues will go “tremendously proper.” That, he stated, is what will get him up each morning.
“I feel we are able to simply think about a world within the not-so-distant future the place all people has a greater life than they’ve immediately,” Altman stated.
