Altman on p(doom): "Unacceptable" to take a 10% chance of killing everyone
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-13
Reacting to Jacob Coxon's 166M+ view viral tweet (the ex-Anthropic/OpenAI researcher who resigned), Sam Altman told Fortune: "I think it is unacceptable to be taking like a 10% chance of killing everybody by the end of the decade." A rare explicit p(doom) statement from a frontier lab CEO; full interview on Fortune's YouTube channel.
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