Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”.

In an interview released on Monday, Altman was asked about how OpenAI’s approach to safety differed from that of Anthropic, which has called for the industry to slow down after one of its researchers quit, warning that AI experts believed “it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.

“I think there’s a lot of daylight,” Altman said. “One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use AI widely].

The interview The Guardian is referring to (but doesn't name) is likely the one he did with Politico. That was posted in this community a few hours ago.

I think we're doing way too many Springer "information" lately. And they didn't even include the actual interview.

WHAT BENEFITS?

Hmmm, ask Charlie Kirk about how that worked out for him.

It seems convenient for him that he is one of those bad things.

The possibilities are truly limitless—Moving forward with intention—paradigm shift in the marketplace—as a chance to iterate and improve—create powerful synergy—Empowering teams with the right tools. User-centric design principles—Together, these elements create a powerful flywheel—while continuing to evolve. And human-centric design—how exciting this journey can be—both future-ready and impact-driven.

It's not just a game-changing technology — it's a productivity revolution disguised as innovation

Plus, one lucky person will become a quadrillionaire! Just think, it could be you!! 🤞

We’ve asked the AI and - oh, this is a little embarrassing! - it says the most worthy candidate for this unique opportunity is none other than Sam Altman himself. Please understand that he’d normally decline out of modesty, but the AI knows best so it really wouldn’t be right to defy it…

Shut up and take my bitcoin!

No thanks. I'd rather have Google Assistant back and Gemini can fuck off forever. I just wanted to set timers and navigate hands free, but Gemini seems to find ways to fuck up even the simplest stuff that Assistant could reliably do, even offline!

This is the "AI" experience in nutshell: Shit is straight up broken and unreliable compared to what we had before from search to digital assistants to what should be basic apps we need to use.

In no appreciable way has "AI" improved my life, but it has definitely made everything way more expensive, caused massive harm to the environment, and is literally making people who use it stupid. What benefits is this asshole talking about!?

The industry ready capabilities combined with agile methodology will allow AI to hit the ground running.

Turns out basing computers on logic and math is way more useful than bullshit and hallucinations. Especially since we've made our entire industrial system dependent on them functioning well and consistently.

🙄🙄🙄🙄

Someone make this guy a middle manager

And my NFTs.

I will say, LLM does have some legitimate uses (like finding exploits to patch), but the "AI" garbage being crammed into every conceivable thing is aggressively stupid.

I think you meant to say SI

"Bad things now for good things later" is the oldest scam in the book.

That's exactly the same logic that gets people to send their money to fake Nigerian princes with the promise they'll be rewarded with riches later.

I love the amount of nonsense communications I receive from coworkers.

So many times have I heard of a major crime that a bank, or financial institution commit, and think about how I heard about the scam first on runescape.

The most impressive scam they got me with was a merch clan. They essentially told us to buy a item that's the equivalent of game stop stock (ring of stone) at max price and hold, while rug pulling us. Items changed value at timed intervals based on recent trades, and that item was very infrequently made, and no one wanted it so the trade volume was super low and manipulatable. We made the price go up and they sold us the item that's now worth less then what we bought it for because everyone else is underselling it trying to dump it instantly.

Best scams always are time sensitive and work off your own greed to make you look past the glaring red flags.

Did you know we used a computer running on kilobytes of data to make it to the moon? The fucking MOON.

Could you imagine a world where Microsoft didn't recommend 16gigs of ram so that their spyware can take screen shots of your screen, and sniff your panties for what ever data it can find.

Why’d they put the quotation marks around “bad things” instead of “benefits of ai?”

I'll except those AI CEOs heads on a silver platter, thanks.

Y'know, the stuff he's been talking about every time this comes up, *checks notes* curing cancer and all that. Probably after we all die and the planet is destroyed, since if no one's alive then no one can have cancer.

No. No, I don't think I will.

"You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!"

No mother fucker, you're an amoral psychopath and the last person to be trusted with this

I may be broke but I'd gladly take out a pay-day-loan to buy Sam a plane ticket to Canada so he can give this speech at Tumbler Ridge Secondary.