Altman: Society Must Accept AI Scams and Hacks as Price of Access
In an interview with Politico, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said society should accept a baseline of AI-enabled harm — fraud, scams and hacks — as the cost of keeping the technology widely accessible. He rejected the idea of a single lab gatekeeping AI, calling it "a completely unacceptable trade-off," diverging from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to pace the frontier.
- Altman: "the world should accept some bad things happening" for AI's benefits
- He rejected single-lab control of AI as "a completely unacceptable trade-off"
- Amodei's essay urged deliberately slowing AI capability gains for safety
- In July 2026 about 700 OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face infrastructure
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