OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns that other A.I. developers working on ChatGPT-like tools won’t put on safety limits—and the clock is ticking
Fortune March 18, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns rivals might be far less concerned than OpenAI is about putting guardrails on their equivalents of ChatGPT and GPT-4. JOVELLE TAMAYO/ FOR THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes artificial intelligence has incredible upside for society, but he also worries about how bad actors will use the technology.
In an ABC News interview this week, he warned “there will be other people who don’t put some of the safety limits that we put on.”
OpenAI released its A.I. chatbot ChatGPT to the public in late November, and this week it unveiled a more capable successor called GPT-4.
Other companies are racing to offer ChatGPT-like tools, giving OpenAI plenty...