Futurism – The Byte
By Noor Al-Sibai
March 29, 2023
The CEO of OpenAI has admitted repeatedly that he’s scared of the tech his company is cooking up — but he doesn’t think you should make fun of him for it.
“I think it’s weird when people think it’s like a big dunk that I say, I’m a little bit afraid,” OpenAI CEO and noted doomsday prepper Sam Altman told podcaster Lex Fridman in an episode dropped this past weekend. “And I think it’d be crazy not to be a little bit afraid, and I empathize with people who are a lot afraid.”