Sam Altman: melting all the GPUs to ensure humanity's survival? "Easy yes"
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-11-05
Asked whether we'd ever reach the point of shutting down compute, Sam Altman said: "I don't think we're ever personally going to get to the point where we have to say melt all the GPUs, but you know, if we had to do something like that to ensure the continued existence of humanity, easy yes."
A notable statement from Altman on frontier AI risk, signaling willingness to sacrifice compute for human safety in extreme scenarios.
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