Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi

Summary

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, told Politico's Decoded podcast and newsletter that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI and people's agency to use it. Guardian US columnist Moustafa Bayoumi responds by arguing that AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three.

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