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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, Sam Altman admits that AI's benefits may not be widely distributed — at least not at first.
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. Not for the first time, Altman claims that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which he defines as “[an AI] system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields” — is near. Similar to OpenAI rival Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, Altman envisions thousands or even millions of hyper-capable AI systems tackling tasks “in every field of knowledge work.”
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