Sam Altman: No power concentration in a 10-billion-IQ AI or a handful of people
haider1 · x · 2026-10-23
Sam Altman said in an interview: "people should control the future. we don't want too much power concentrated in an AI with an IQ of ten billion or a handful of people who can do whatever they want with AI."
Asked how much smarter than the smartest humans AI can get, and how fast, he answered that it's solvable — it just takes time. The remarks continue his recurring narrative of sharply rising AI capabilities paired with the need for distributed governance.
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