Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi, AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Those bad things? They only happen to other people Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has some words for you about his company and the future of artificial intelligence. “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 Decoded . Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the award-winning books How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. He is professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a Guardian US columnist Continue reading…

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