Sam Altman: stopping AI would mean kids dying of curable diseases
firstadopter · x · 2026-09-13
Sam Altman pushed back against calls to slow AI: having kids is the best thing in his life, and if AI were stopped because people are uncomfortable with the pace of change, a child could die of a disease that would have been cured — he believes AI will cure all diseases.
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