Sam Altman says world must 'accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits
Polymarket · x · 2026-10-05
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the world needs to "accept some bad things happening" in exchange for the benefits of AI — a characteristically risk-tolerant framing likely to reignite debate over AI's trade-offs.
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