Altman Backs Lighter AI Rules, Says 0 Harm Is an Unacceptable Trade-Off
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Updated · POLITICO · Oct 5
Altman Backs Lighter AI Rules, Says 0 Harm Is an Unacceptable Trade-Off
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Oct 5
Summary
Sam Altman said the world should tolerate some AI-driven scams, hacks and misuse because the technology will generate “orders of magnitude more” benefits than harms.
OpenAI’s CEO used the interview to argue for lighter-touch regulation, rejecting the idea that one San Francisco lab should tightly control powerful AI to prevent all bad outcomes.
Altman drew a line at catastrophic dangers, saying he does not accept risks such as a serious loss of control to AI.
Anthropic pushed back through a spokesperson, saying its proposals cover only frontier models and citing earlier comments from CEO Dario Amodei that its policies aim to slow leading labs while helping smaller rivals.