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Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argues that AI safety requires global cooperation, rigorous testing, and broad distribution of benefits to ensure the technology serves all of humanity.

Background

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the image-generator DALL-E. OpenAI started as a non-profit research lab in 2015 with the mission of building "safe" artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI that can outperform humans at most cognitive work. The company has since become one of the most valuable startups in the world, but has also been at the center of intense debate: critics argue that OpenAI is racing to deploy powerful AI systems without adequate safety testing, while Altman and his allies insist that the best way to make AI safe is to deploy it gradually, learn from real-world use, and involve society in setting rules. This article is Altman's personal argument for that approach, likely in response to growing calls for a moratorium or stricter government regulation of large AI models.

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