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ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be “that far away from potentially scary” AI & feels “regulation will be critical”

Society needs time to adapt to "something so big" as AI

Newsroom February 21 09:02

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, warned the world may not that “that far from potentially scary” artificial intelligence, and said regulating it will be “critical.”

In a series of tweets on Sunday, Altman said a transition to an AI-enabled future is “mostly good” and can happen fast — like the transition from “pre-smartphone world to post-smartphone world.”

He, however, cautioned society needs time to adapt to “something so big” as AI.

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“We also need enough time for our institutions to figure out what to do. regulation will be critical and will take time to figure out; although current-generation AI tools aren’t very scary, i think we are potentially not that far away from potentially scary ones,” he tweeted.

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