Sam Altman says society must accept some 'bad things' from AI
Sam Altman: Bad things will have to happen to other people for us to succeed www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
maclogue17"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
Monitor Lizard6As a compromise, I'm willing to accept bad things happening to Sam Altman
vet-ingenting.bsky.social4This has been the core principle of capitalism ever since it begin: the many must suffer for the benefit of the wealthy few.
United States of Absurdity4So they're allowed to steal our data to train models that make them rich, AND on top of that we're supposed to accept some pain and suffering as well? Guess I'll just go fuck myself.
Karel Brits 🔻2@drewharwell.com maybe some bad things need to happen to billionaires and tech ceo's in order to save humanity.
Luna2“Hey Sam do the rest of us get a choice in this” “HAHA GOOD ONE! Oh shit you’re serious-“
Sonic Spookhammer 🎃42Naturally, he shouldn't have to accept bad things happening to him, since he's a very important big-brain boy.
Pete Fraser10Altman is always the one who comes the closest to just coming out and saying ‘look, it’s very important that my company is worth a trillion dollars, and if we have to end life as we know it for that to happen, that’s a sacrifice we should be willing to make.’
Paul4I agree, let’s start with billionaires and ceos.
Christian Fröschlin3New regulation: Prerequisite for every new model release is a Klingon pain stick session for the CEO.
Sarah Darer Littman3I spent my teen years trying to learn swears in as many different languages as possible and I still don't have enough swear words to express my feelings about Sam Altman.
I do not want it in my words I do not want it faking birds I do not like it in my mail It really is beyond the pale I do not want it stealing art I not want it whole, or part I do not want your AI spam I hate it, hate it, Sam Altman
Reality Ausetkmt2Well said indeed Andy Clark
If Aaron Swartz was still alive, I'm pretty sure he would have made it his life mission to personally demolish Sam Altman and all that he represents. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Dave Karpf14Ohandanotherthing: Sam Altman is such a perfect example of techno-optimism as it is actually practiced. It's the ideology of incurious plutocrats (and their hangers-on). "Well gee, sure, the effects of my product could be terrible! But we should all just trust that it'll be more good than bad."
Miles1The bad stuff is already happening, and he's it.
JUST IN: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world "should accept some bad things happening" for AI’s benefits. Who gets to decide how much harm society should accept in the name of “progress”?
Mari Bilderback5And someone else’s definition of progress. Theirs is diametrically opposed to mine. Mine doesn’t include the destruction of democracy & wide swaths of society. These libertarian don’t tread on me free market peeps are very focused on forcing this on a market that doesn’t want it.
Glory Glory2And who gets to decide how "progress" is defined in the first place?
RawrTigerlily2Why can’t he and the other tech billionaires be the ones bad things happen to for the greater benefits of society? Like paying taxes. Being held legally accountable for the crimes of their AI, and going to prison, etc… 🤷♀️
davemc5192.bsky.social2Or maybe we should just focus in & hold accountable the people who are allowing ‘bad things’ to become reality, because of their insatiable greed…
Jeswings1In the name of Sam's bank balance, no?
I'm only one question into the Vanity Fair Sam Altman interview and I feel I will die
Glen2What is it that the interviewer thinks the watershed moment is? Random agent hacks?
Mike Friedman1Of course it's a softball interview. I want to throw up and I only read a few sentences of it. He's a sociopath. If people don't know this then I suggest they do a little reading. He's a nasty vile person. Just ask ANYONE WHO HAS EVER WORKED WITH HIM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93m...
I think Sam Altman has a point that every technology has tradeoffs. We’ve decided cars are worth having even though they pollute the air and drunk drivers kill thousands every year. The question is who bears those costs and how responsible are companies for preventing harms caused by their products
Optimistic Doomer9Sure, every technology has tradeoffs, but he's asking for permission to violate laws without consequence instead of developing his technology within them. He wants no tradeoffs for him, only tradeoffs for everyone else.
Tony Andrews7But we DON’T “decide”. Once a technology gets a foothold, the cost of making a different choice can become too great and we’re just stuck with it.
Machine Learning Kelly3I think the current position, and perhaps what has been the position all along is privatize the profits, externalize the risks/liabilities.
⚠️ Society doesn’t have a great track record here! Using cars as an example, GM invented tetraethyllead to make engines run smoother. They dumped it in the air from the 1920s through the 1970s. They greased legislators’ palms & buried evidence it was harmful. Society is still paying for that, not GM!
Justin Smith2I think that's a false framing of the issue. The question isn't cars or no cars, AI or no AI. It's whether we surrender the things we value in order to maximize the profits of technology in ways that accrue to the few instead of the many.
Ian2Let his company face consequences for their AI Cybercrimes first, talk tradeoffs later.
"Accept that we robbed you blind and burned down the planet while making a shittier search engine" is a wild sales pitch but go off, I guess
🎃RoryValArt 💛🤍💜🖤 I want to be a pumpkin cat3I want to set up a fundraiser to get Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Musk, Trump, Putin and a bunch of other people and send them to be the first Mars permanent colonisers so they can be there before anyone else and be all cool and everything. And forget to send any follow-up resources, possibly.
Matt | DEMO OUT NOW!3Easy to say when the bad things are happening to other people
Kindred 66-Orygma1How about we start throwing magnets at data centers, I say.
