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OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has said that human control over the future must remain a fundamental condition for artificial intelligence (AI) development, arguing that people should not surrender decision-making power to increasingly advanced AI systems.
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has said that human control over the future must remain a fundamental condition for artificial intelligence (AI) development, arguing that people should not surrender decision-making power to increasingly advanced AI systems . In a post on X, Altman said OpenAI opposed the idea that humans could be relegated to performing tasks that AI systems consider worthy of reward. He stressed that the development of superintelligence must remain subject to human control. "People should always be in control of the future," Altman said, adding that "people should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress".
His remarks add to the debate within the technology industry over how quickly advanced AI systems should be developed and what safeguards are needed to ensure they remain under human control. The statement follows a public discussion in September, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow the pace of AI development, warning that advances in model capabilities could outpace the ability of researchers to understand and control them. Altman had then endorsed the proposal, saying, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier", and supported giving independent evaluators access to AI systems to assess their safety.
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