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Sam Altman: belief

18 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

“I’m actually happy that they do that, because I think we do need to think about this more.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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belief
Recorded
18 Mar 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…To you, it’s not super-easy to escape the box at this time, connect to the internet- We talked about theatrical risks earlier. That’s a theatrical risk. That is a thing that can really take over how people think about this problem. And there’s a big group of very smart, I think very well-meaning AI safety researchers that got super-hung up on this one problem, I’d argue without much progress, but super-hung up on this one problem. I’m actually happy that they do that, because I think we do need to think about this more. But I think it pushed out of the space of discourse a lot of the other very significant AI- related risks. Let me ask you about you tweeting with no capitalization. Is the shift key broken on your keyboard?…

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