Altman: the world should accept some bad things happening for AI's benefits
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-06
In a POLITICO Decoded interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "we believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology," discussing safety trade-offs and how OpenAI differs from Anthropic. Reposter antondleicht agreed that excessive risk aversion about misuse concentrates wealth and power in the labs, and that iterative deployment and tolerating disruption are democratising forces worth OpenAI's commercial and PR costs.
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