Post by @lechekaflan@lemmy.world

2026-10-06 10:23 UTC

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52752723 Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. In an interview released on Monday, Altman was asked about how OpenAI’s approach to safety differed from that of Anthropic, which has called for the industry to slow down after one of its researchers quit, warning that AI experts believed “it could kill us all by the end of the decade”. “I think there’s a lot of daylight,” Altman said. “One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use AI widely].

Replies (3)

@very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 19:44

“Bad things now for good things later” is the oldest scam in the book. That’s exactly the same logic that gets people to send their money to fake Nigerian princes with the promise they’ll be rewarded with riches later.

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@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-06 13:23

No thanks. I’d rather have Google Assistant back and Gemini can fuck off forever. I just wanted to set timers and navigate hands free, but Gemini seems to find ways to fuck up even the simplest stuff that Assistant could reliably do, even offline! This is the “AI” experience in nutshell: Shit is straight up broken and unreliable compared to what we had before from search to digital assistants to what should be basic apps we need to use. In no appreciable way has “AI” improved my life, but it has definitely made everything way more expensive, caused massive harm to the environment, and is literally making people who use it stupid. What benefits is this asshole talking about!?

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@h0tbeef@lemmy.zip 2026-10-07 08:01

Why’d they put the quotation marks around “bad things” instead of “benefits of ai?”

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