Sam Altman

We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels.

The AI revolution will generate enough wealth for everyone.

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...

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 ...