AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman - eviltoast
AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman | CNN Business
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Human beings will continue to decide “what should happen in the world” regardless of the rise of artificial intelligence, OpenAI’s Sam Altmann said Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

  • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    Shouldn’t, but there’s absolutely nothing stopping it, and lazy tech companies absolutely will. I mean we live in a world where Boeing built a plane that couldn’t fly straight so they tried to fix it with software. The tech will be abused so long as people are greedy.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      So long as people are rewarded for being greedy. Greedy and awful people will always exist, but the issue is in allowing them to control how things are run.

      • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        More than just that, they’re shielded from repercussions. The execs involved with ignoring all the safety concerns should be in jail right now for manslaughter. They knew better and gambled with other people’s lives.

    • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      They fixed it with software and then charged extra for the software safety feature. It wasn’t until the planes started falling out of the sky that they decided they would gracefully offer it for free.