Sam Altman
American venture-capitalist in Silicon Valley (born 1985)
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Right now we’re investing more in safety, security, alignment, monitoring and that will allow us to continue to progress model capability a lot,
- Altman told reporters last monthThe Manila Timesmanilatimes.net/2026/10…manilatimes.net/2026/10…
We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
- In a recent interview, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, saidThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/10…
We need to be able to make decisions that are not obviously in the interest of our business and our shareholders for the responsibility of fulfilling our mission and what that's going to require,
One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use it],
- Altman told Politico’s new technology podcast and newsletter DecodedGuardiantheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement,
- Altman wrote in an open letterBBCbbc.com/news/articles…
If something goes wrong with our models during training, there’s gonna be some version of that we need to be responsible for,
- Altman said in an exclusive interview with Decoded by POLITICO released MondayPolitico Europepolitico.eu/article/eu…
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