OpenAI's Boaz Barak: no benevolent AI dictators, even if it means less abundance
tszzl · x · 2026-09-24
OpenAI researcher Boaz Barak says he'd trade some AI-driven abundance to keep humans in control of their own destiny: "If our goal was to maximize energy production, I'd agree we should let superintelligence optimize for that. But I don't think that's our goal as human beings."
- "I don't want AI dictators, even if they are benevolent. I don't want AIs to be our parents."
- "We have the Dyson spheres a little bit later" — accepting somewhat less output in exchange for human agency.
A notable alignment stance from inside a frontier lab.
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