Altman tells Politico 'lot of daylight' with Anthropic on AI risk
TL;DR
- Altman told Politico there is 'a lot of daylight' between OpenAI and Anthropic on how far to regulate advanced AI.
- He said the world 'should accept some bad things happening' as the cost of broad individual access to powerful AI.
- Altman called concentrating control in 'a single lab in San Francisco' a completely unacceptable trade-off.
Sam Altman told Politico's Decoded newsletter there is 'a lot of daylight' between OpenAI and Anthropic on how far governments should go to restrain frontier AI, framing the gap as his willingness to live with some harm in exchange for broad user access.
'We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency,' Altman said in the interview with Politico's Brendan Bordelon.
He pushed back on the position that 'this technology is going to get so powerful, and it's so dangerous, that a single lab in San Francisco should have it and make sure nothing bad happens,' calling that 'a completely unacceptable trade-off.' He added: 'I wouldn't take a trade of saying, We'll make sure there's no major hacks, there's no misuse of this technology, there's zero scams.'
The framing lands against Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September essay urging the industry to 'pace the frontier.' We've logged 328 Anthropic stories and 397 on OpenAI in the last 90 days, and the two labs are now visibly on opposite sides of a debate that used to live inside the research floors.
Originally reported by politico.com
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