Sam Altman asks who gets to decide how intelligent AI is allowed to become
VraserX · x · 2026-11-05
Sam Altman raises an uncomfortable question about self-improving AI: who actually decides how intelligent AI is allowed to become — governments, a handful of tech CEOs, or the public?
He also asks what happens once AI improves faster than humans can keep up, pointing at the core governance and control problem of recursive self-improvement.
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