Sam Altman: you can't contain an AI millions of times smarter than us
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-10-30
Quoting Sam Altman: "We can't really contain something that's millions of times smarter than us." He asks readers to imagine a theoretical AI a million times smarter than the best security researcher, and questions whether anyone would truly trust a sandbox—especially if the model can discover new science humans don't yet understand. A representative statement from Altman on frontier AI controllability.
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