Altman pushes back on Amodei: humans must not cede the future to superintelligence
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-04
Sam Altman publicly stated that people should always be in control of the future and that OpenAI rejects relegating humans to what "AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans"—a response to Dario Amodei's essay "Machines of Loving Grace." Context: Amodei speculated about an AI-run economy distributing resources via "Whuffie points," a secondary economy based on what AI systems deem worth rewarding in humans, which critics read as an AI-driven social credit system. The exchange exposes a real rift between the two CEOs on AI governance and human agency.
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