Sam Altman's 2015 post: Call for regulating superhuman AI
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-08-20
A 2015 blog post by Sam Altman on machine intelligence resurfaced. In it, Altman called for governments to regulate the development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) to slow down bad actors and speed up good ones, suggesting a new agency might be needed. The acknowledgements section featuring figures like Dario Amodei adds a surreal time-capsule element.
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