Sam Altman Defends AI Thrust Days After Retaking OpenAI’s Helm

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Sam Altman Defends AI Thrust Days After Retaking OpenAI’s Helm

Saritha Rai

Tue, December 12, 2023, 1:15 PM GMT+9·3 min read

(Bloomberg) -- Sam Altman is back on the conference circuit and touting AI’s benefits to humanity, days after regaining the lead at the world’s best-known artificial intelligence startup.

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In his first public appearance since Altman regained control of OpenAI after a surprise ouster attempt, the co-founder and chief executive officer defended his exploratory approach to developing AI. “It’s going to lift the world up,” he said, stressing potential advances in fields from health-care to education. And he described how he’s always been fascinated by fictional rogue AIs like the Terminator — but that companies like OpenAI needed to push the boundaries to realize the technology’s potential.

“All those thoughts about the ways that this could go wrong, you don’t need much imagination because we grew up with that in the media,” Altman said in an onstage interview at a forum hosted by rights organization Operation Hope in Atlanta on Monday. “That’s why we work so hard on safety. But we also believe you cannot build this safely in a vacuum.”

That’s why OpenAI is attempting to build the technology openly and deploy widely, instead of within some secretive lab, he added. Altman said he understood the anxieties around AI being used to build bioweapons or hacking into computer systems, but “you gotta deploy.”

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During the 35-minute conversation, Altman didn’t directly address his surprise firing and reinstatement, or the plans for OpenAI’s new board and system of governance.

Concern around the speed with which OpenAI was developing ChatGPT and other products was the central issue during an attempted coup that stunned Silicon Valley last month. Altman’s co-founder and the board fired the entrepreneur, only to reinstate him days later after investors and employees revolted. Despite the exit of most of the previous board members, there are signs that differences with co-founder Ilya Sutskever haven’t been ironed out.

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