Society should accept negative consequences like hacks and scams as a necessary trade-off for the benefits of AI technology.

JUST IN: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world "should accept some bad things happening" for AI’s benefits. Who gets to decide how much harm society should accept in the name of “progress”?

“we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on where he disagrees with Anthropic’s CEO Funnily enough, OpenAI’s “rogue AI agent” incidents have done more to make the case for AI regulation than all of Dario’s doomerism laden interviews. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

"Bad things" sounds just a teensy bit vague, Sam... Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman | OpenAI | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks #AI #SamAltman

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said: 'We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology'.": https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217 This sounds like he is saying: "If your lives get worse but my wealth increases, I look at it as a good thing." Few people are likely to agree with such a selfish statement. #AI

Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other