Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker
TL;DR
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences Tech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of Sam Altman’s flaws is that he often lacks that subtlety. “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology,” said the OpenAI chief executive in an interview with Politico last weekend. That’s easy for Altman to say.
Nauti's Take
For small teams, this becomes a control question: before connecting an AI agent to email, a CRM, or internal systems, define permissions, logging, a manual kill switch, and a clear incident plan. Altman’s statement is a useful test for any rollout: which risks are you accepting, who pays when something goes wrong, and which decisions stay with a human?
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