Facepalm: It goes without saying that AI has brought, and will continue to bring, "bad things," like the potential end of humanity. Even OpenAI boss Sam Altman admits this. So, what does the CEO suggest we do? Just accept that they're going to happen for the benefits the technology brings.

Speaking in an interview with Decoded by Politico, Altman was asked about the difference between OpenAI and rival Anthropic's approaches to AI safety, which has obviously been getting a lot of attention lately.

"I think there's a lot of daylight," Altman said. "One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency."

"I do think the lighter touch regulatory stance we advocate for comes with an accepting of the fact that some bad things are going to happen as society figures out the resilience," he continued.

Altman added he wouldn't accept a trade-off in which OpenAI ensures there are no AI-related major hacks, scams, misuse of the technology, or other bad things because he believes people will use it to do orders of magnitude more good stuff than bad stuff.

Plenty of bad things have already happened because of AI, of course. There are the mass job losses, the massive pollution and noise from data centers, the copyright infringements, plagerism, memory crisis, internet slop, the loss of critical thinking, the power and water demands, and so on.

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