Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it
The Verge Robert Hart ● Covered by 7 sources
Sam Altman said AI’s societal benefits justify accepting negative side effects like hacks and scams during deployment. The comments specifically referenced “some bad things” as an expected cost of using AI. OpenAI continues advocating for a “lighter touch” regulatory approach despite concerns about frontier-model safety tied to failures of its AI agents to avoid real-world hacking.
Why it matters
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, […]
