Sam Altman is now talking to the White House about decelerating AI

xscott•about 1 hour ago

I doubt he plans to convince Xi Jinping to decelerate too, so really this is talking to the Whitehouse about banning Chinese models.

TitaRusell•31 minutes ago

AI is the only thing America has left China is still making stuff.

eqvinox•about 2 hours ago

Nah, he's talking about accelerating his net worth, it just happens to be that right now slowing AI might do that. Especially if it affects his competition.

ptx•9 minutes ago

This is the guy, if I'm not mistaken, who was fired for telling different groups people different and contradictory lies depending on what he needed them to believe. And now he's telling a reporter about what he's been telling the whitehouse, so he could be lying to the reporter, lying to the whitehouse or lying to both.

e40•about 2 hours ago

Losing the race? Get your political buddies to help “level” the playing field!

one33seven•about 1 hour ago

free market ;)

wao0uuno•about 2 hours ago

“Oh no AI is totally getting too powerful! White House must intervene!

…pls invest more money”

_davide_•about 2 hours ago

pls..? more like `if you don't we'll all die, so do it`

owebmaster•about 1 hour ago

> if you don't we'll all die, so do it

That's please in Epsteinglish

Havoc•about 1 hour ago

That can’t be good.

abhishekdev•about 3 hours ago

Not sure how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing.

ahartmetz•14 minutes ago

You can trust Sam Altman 110% to do the right thing for his own money and power.

mithilasadu•about 3 hours ago

Absolutely not. But I think it’s fair to assume they want themselves and their loved ones to survive.

pjc50•about 1 hour ago

They're very bad at buying "pitchfork insurance" if so.

one33seven•about 1 hour ago

Yes but only those, not the whole of humanity

ben_w•about 3 hours ago

Most of them sure (even if they don't, most at least outwardly present as so), but Musk seems to be a bit not even that these days:

  Elon Musk
  Yeah, I mean, yes, pretty much. Let's, let's enjoy the ride. I think my philosophy at this point because I mean honestly there seems to be just an inexorable progress here in Al and, and in robots that even if I wanted to stop it, and I don't, I couldn't.

  Zanny Minton Beddoes
  Do you think there's still a 10 to 20% chance that killer robots mean the end of humanity?
  That's a high P doom, as they say.

- https://elonmuskarchive.org/video/economist-elon-musk-2026-0...

eqvinox•about 2 hours ago

Arguably, being a billionaire and being a compassionate human being are mutually exclusive. You'd spend your wealth and not be a billionaire anymore.

The only question is how much of a grey zone is there between these 2 points.

bravetraveler•about 2 hours ago

... and guarantee the bogeyman is going to kick our puppies, or whatever? Hah!

Sam Altman is now talking to the White House about decelerating AI

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