Sam Altman: the world should accept some AI harms for its benefits

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Politico's Decoded podcast that society should tolerate some AI harms — hacks, scams and misuse — to unlock the technology's benefits and keep users in control. He favors lighter regulation but says catastrophic risks like losing control over AI systems deserve far more caution.

• Altman: AI's good will outweigh bad by orders of magnitude
• He accepts hacks, scams and misuse as an inevitable cost
• Catastrophic risks like loss of control need more caution
• NYU's Gary Marcus criticized Altman's stance