Sam Altman doesn’t want AI deciding what humans do; OpenAI CEO says: People should not be relegated to a - The Times of India
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Sam Altman has spent years telling the world that superintelligence is closer than it looks. Now the OpenAI CEO wants to be clear about one thing: whenever it shows up, it should not be the one running things. In a three-line post on X, Altman said people should always be in control of the future, and that OpenAI is against humans being “relegated to a role of doing things that ‘AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans’.” He saved the sharpest line for the end. People should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, he wrote, “and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress.”The words in quotation marks are borrowed, though Altman did not say from whom. What stands out more is the final sentence. The head of the company that set off the AI race with ChatGPT has now put in writing that human control should decide how far and how fast AI goes.Sam Altman believes AI has already overtaken the smartest scientistsThe post did not come out of nowhere. Speaking at a conference in Abu Dhabi earlier this week, Altman made the same case for keeping people in charge, and paired it with a striking claim. At the start of 2026, he said, AI “was mostly not as smart as our smartest scientists. And now it’s mostly smarter than them.”He had sketched out how he wants that power spread around in a podcast conversation with Stripe co-founder John Collison last month. Altman said he would rather see “a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of 1 trillion IQ.” Society holds together, he argued, because lots of people keep each other in check, and AI should work the same way.The industry, he added, may need to agree on limits to how smart any single model is allowed to get, possibly for a long time. He also had little patience…
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