Altman tells G20 ministers: rejecting AI is like rejecting electricity in the industrial era
SatelliteNetSec · x · 2026-09-05
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urged ministers at the G20 tech summit in North Carolina to embrace AI, claiming "a kid growing up today will never be smarter than AI" and warning that rejecting it would be comparable to rejecting electricity during the industrial era.
The retweeter pushes back from the opposite angle, asking why tech oligarchs would want children's developing brains to be as stunted as possible — a typical critical counterpoint to Altman's pro-AI advocacy.
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