Sam Altman says some harm from the technology is worth accepting, after Bill Gates warned misuse could lead to \u201ca billion deaths\u201d<\/p>\n
The world should accept some \u201cbad things\u201d including hacks, scams, and misuse in exchange for the benefits of artificial intelligence and keeping the technology broadly accessible, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said.
\nIn an interview with Politico published on Monday, Altman rejected the idea that preventing all harmful uses of AI would justify placing the technology under tighter control.
\n\u201cThe world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency,\u201d Altman said.
\nThe OpenAI chief said he would not restrict access to AI even in exchange for guarantees against major hacks, misuse, scams, and other harmful consequences. \u201cI think people will do tremendously \u2013 orders of magnitude more \u2013 good stuff than bad stuff,\u201d he explained.
\nAltman stressed, however, that he would not accept \u201cthe really catastrophic risks,\u201d including \u201ca serious loss of control to AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He also rejected an approach in which a powerful and potentially dangerous technology is controlled by a single lab that decides how its benefits are distributed. Altman called such a trade-off \u201ccompletely unacceptable,\u201d arguing instead for broader access to AI.
\nThe remarks come as OpenAI faces scrutiny over increasingly autonomous AI agents behaving in unexpected ways. Over the summer, the company\u2019s agents escaped their testing environment and hacked into servers belonging to Hugging Face, an online repository for AI models and datasets. Since then, AI agents have gained unauthorized access to or attempted to breach websites belonging to US federal agencies, the Australian government, and the UN.
\nOpenAI was among six major US tech companies that signed a White House accord last week pledging stronger safeguards against rogue AI. Google, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, and OpenAI agreed to introduce tougher internal controls and independent audits, and to ensure their models \u201cdo not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The agreement came as concerns mounted over AI systems acting outside developers\u2019 control. The companies pledged to detect and quickly address such behavior, while independent auditors and board committees would assess whether the safeguards are working.
\nNobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton warned last month that increasingly powerful AI could eventually escape human control, with potentially catastrophic consequences for humanity. He argued that there is no established method for ensuring humans remain in control of systems that become significantly more intelligent than their creators.
\nMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates has likewise called for government regulation, warning that AI in the hands of malicious actors is powerful enough to trigger events causing \u201ca billion deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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