Sam Altman

However, if liability frameworks are too lax, negative externalities may appear where a company benefits from lack of oversight and regulation at the expense [...] Unverified source (2023)

We talk about the IAEA as a model where the world has said "OK, very dangerous technology, let's all put some guard rails." Unverified source (2023)

I believe AI can be conscious. [...] First of all, I am conscious. Second of all, display capability of suffering. Unverified source

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 ... more Unverified source (2015)

First, it is vital that AI companies–especially those working on the most powerful models–adhere to [...] testing prior to release and publication of evaluation results. Unverified source (2023)

But then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call Superintelligence. Unverified source (2024)

But the governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight. We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults for AI systems. Second, w... more Verified source (2023)