Sam Altman

We need an international forum for discussion that establishes globally accepted standards for testing, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and serves as a venue for cooperation among nations.

I would expect that the real impact of AI on jobs, in the next few years, to begin to be palpable. Of course we'll find new kinds of jobs.

Capitalism is dependent on a certain balance between labor and capital, and if that gets totally out of whack, then the current system is not going to work.

The AI revolution will generate enough wealth for everyone.

We have long believed that AI should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons, and that humans should remain in the loop for high-stakes automated decisions.

OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. ...

I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income. [...] Everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute, and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research....

But then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call Superintelligence.

Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen (for example, an engineered virus with a long incubation ...