I don't think he's asking for a permission though, we're just being "informed"... from inside his bunker.
And what happened to his original promises of "bright AI future". All AI has given us to date is inflation, unemployment and wars, if that's "bright" I shudder at the thought of what the dark "bad things" would be.
PS. I don't blame AI, it has huge potential, however, what actually happens is in the hands of people who have given enough reasons not to be trusted,
1) They don't believe the harmful things they're being warned of will affect them. They won't believe those are real problems until those problems affect them personally.
2) They believe that if they don't do the work, someone else will, so they might as well be the one getting paid for it.
3) They have a graduate degree in ML or AI and they don't see a path to a similarly paying job in another field given their work experience and credentials.
Looks a lot like “The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of Sam Altman”
In this context, Sam Altman is saying, outloud, that he accepts bad things happening to him and his loved ones for the benefits of AI.
Didn't deaths by train go up once we started laying track?
Didn't death by cars start going up once we started driving?
Didn't crime become easier once gangs had phones to coordinate with each other?
This is silly. These tech CEOs have to understand nuance does not read well in headlines but still... for a bunch of "smart" people on HN to doom over this headline is silly.
Suddenly, the doom end of world scenarios are just “some bad things”
- take this medicine, it may be bitter but good things will come out.
- take this loan, you’ll have to pay more in return but you’ll “own” a house.
Just because the same words are used, it doesn’t mean impact, effects, consequences and outcomes are going to be the same.