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born 1985 United States
Samuel Harris Altman (born 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and programmer. He is the CEO of OpenAI and was the co-founder of Loopt.
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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
I'm particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation.
“AI will probably be the most powerful technology humanity has ever created, and managing its risks responsibly will be crucial.”
I genuinely hope the best for [Elon Musk], in spite of everything.
I expect AI to be capable of superhuman persuasion before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.
I aspect AI to be capable of superhuman persuasion before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.
Do we make sure AI is a tool that has proper safeguards as it gets really powerful? (November 23, 2023)
It is a failure of human imagination and human arrogance to assume that we will never build things smarter than ourselves.
It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.
I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant models,. We’ll make them better in other ways.
I’m a Midwestern Jew. I think that fully explains my exact mental model—very optimistic, and prepared for things to go super wrong at any point.
I prep for survival. I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.
Regulation will be crucial, and it will take time to understand this. Although the artificial intelligence tools of our generation are not particularly frightening, I think that we are not so far away from those that could potentially be.
I’m reasonably optimistic about solving the technical alignment problem. We still have a lot of work to do but you know I feel …better and better over time, not worse and worse.
Our product has scaled ... now we have more than 300 million weekly active users. We have users sending more than 1 billion messages per day to ChatGPT.
All of these claims are utterly untrue.
ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. It's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. It's a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.
I believe the merge has already started, and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.
This [generative AI] may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we'll get there.