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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shifted his stance on AI risk management, arguing that society must accept certain harms as an inevitable trade-off for the technology's immense benefits. While he previously warned against a 10% probability of existential catastrophe, he now emphasizes that no lab has fully solved alignment and that the potential for good vastly outweighs the risks of misuse. This pragmatic approach highlights the ongoing tension between rapid model scaling and the unresolved challenges of ensuring AI systems remain aligned with human values.

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OpenAI’s Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology’

FortuneOctober 5, 20266 min read

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Politico that people should accept the risks of AI in order to gain its benefits. “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency,” he told the site. The trade-off will be worth it, he argued: “I wouldn’t take a trade of saying, ‘We’ll make sure there’s no major hacks, there’s no misuse of this technology, there’s zero scams, there’s zero all the other bad things that will happen’ … Because I think people will do tremendously — orders of magnitude more — good stuff than bad stuff.” That’s a tone shift from Altman. When he talked to Fortune’s Alyson Shontell recently, he…

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