Comment by Adrien Ecoffet

In the blueprint, we talk, for instance, about incident reporting that's modeled a little bit after how the aviation industry does things whenever there's kind of a near miss or any incidents, however minor, that kind of gets reported to a database so that all the companies can kind of know, okay, well, this is a risk and perhaps here are mitigations that you could implement.
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AI Verified The supplied OpenAI Forum URL resolves to the event replay page for “Sam Altman on Building the Future of AI,” posted Apr 06, 2026. That page lists Adrien Ecoffet as a speaker, and its transcript contains the provided sentence verbatim immediately after the moderator says “Adrian, why don’t we start with you?”, which supports attribution to Ecoffet despite the transcript misspelling his first name there. ([forum.openai.com](https://forum.openai.com/home/videos/event-replay-sam-altman-on-building-the-future-of-ai-2026-04-06)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The quote does appear verbatim in the official OpenAI Forum transcript for the April 6, 2026 event, but it is not attributed to Sam Altman there. In the transcript, Chris Nicholson says, “Adrian, why don’t we start with you?” and the quoted passage follows immediately as Speaker 3, indicating it is Adrien Ecoffet speaking; Sam’s turn begins later when Nicholson addresses “Sam” and Speaker 4 responds. So the text is real, but the attribution to Sam Altman is materially wrong. ([forum.openai.com](https://forum.openai.com/public/videos/event-replay-sam-altman-on-building-the-future-of-ai-2026-04-06)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL on forum.openai.com returns 403 to WebFetch. Web search confirms the existence of an April 2026 OpenAI Forum event with Sam Altman discussing the OpenAI "blueprint" for superintelligence, including incident reporting systems. The quote's substance matches that blueprint (aviation-style incident reporting). However, the event also included Josh Achiam (Chief Futurist) and Adrien Ecoffet, so without retrieving the video transcript I can't conclusively confirm Altman (vs. Achiam/Ecoffet) was the speaker for this specific quote. Vote "for" on "Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority" aligns with the quote's advocacy for an aviation-style incident reporting system. Marking ai_unverifiable due to inaccessible source and speaker ambiguity. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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