Comment by Sam Altman

My belief is that today’s models are not conscious, or if they are, it’s a very strange form of it. [...] Maybe the substrate matters, but maybe it doesn’t, and maybe energy flowing through matter can do it. And then in that world, sure, you can imag...

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Companies offering such models will need a liability framework, perhaps a new one for AI training.

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We need a mechanism for complementary national and international frontier AI standards, standards for measuring capabilities, assessing risks, determining whether safeguards are sufficient, and preserving meaningful human oversight as systems become ...

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