Sam Altman Downplays AGI Risks; Now Warns About Superintelligence [Video]

Last year in May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the US Senate and urged lawmakers to regulate AI to avoid “significant harm to the world”. Altman said, “I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.”

OpenAI itself published a blog titled “Planning for AGI and beyond” in 2023 which says, “AGI would also come with serious risk of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption.”

And now speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Altman seems to have downplayed the risks of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) — an advanced AI system that can match or exceed human capabilities.

Altman said, “But my guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it will matter much less. And a lot of the safety concerns that we and others expressed actually don’t come at the AGI moment. It’s like AGI can get built, the world goes on …