Sam Altman says AI needs to do more than cure cancer to win over skeptics
News Source : Business Insider
News Summary
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the tech industry has done a "terrible job" making the positive case for AI.
- Altman said AI should also "enable a boom in creativity and entrepreneurship," but that this has "been lost in the messaging" Americans have increasingly turned against AI this year.
- About 40% of Americans predict that AI will have a negative impact on society, while only 16% said it would be positive, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
- "The world should want us to think about all the ways that it could go wrong, to talk about what we see coming, but not to sort of like, stir up doom, or concentrate power for ourselves," Altman told Bloomberg.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.Sean Rayford/Getty Images Sam Altman says the AI industry should aim beyond curing cancer to gain public trust and support.
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