5 October 2026
Altman says AI harms are acceptable cost of broad access
First reported
Politico ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT), said some negative consequences from AI are inevitable and acceptable if the technology remains widely available rather than controlled by a single laboratory.
- Altman supports regulation targeting catastrophic risks but opposes restrictions so heavy that they prevent people from accessing beneficial AI tools, disagreeing with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's more cautious approach.
Reported by SiliconANGLE, Politico