Altman: people must accept 'some bad things' to get AI benefits

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI regulation should be "lighter-touch" and that society must accept some risks to gain access to the technology's benefits. He supports guarding against "really catastrophic" threats but opposes restrictions that would block experimentation and useful AI tools.

• Altman backs "lighter-touch" AI regulation over strict restrictions
• He rejects a model where one lab controls access to AI
• Altman agrees with Amodei on slowing frontier model development
• He says AI's benefits will outweigh harms by orders of magnitude