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Sam Altman Warns AI Could Go Very Badly in Two Key Scenarios

Altman said frontier AI should be paced and independently evaluated, warning that unchecked progress could outstrip safeguards and create catastrophic risks.

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that rapid artificial intelligence development could lead humanity to "lose control of the future to AI," arguing that development should be paced carefully to ensure capabilities do not outstrip essential safety safeguards.
  • Researchers and former employees at leading labs, including former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, recently raised concerns that a reckless race toward more powerful models could have catastrophic consequences for humanity within the next decade.
  • Altman cautioned against allowing a single country or individual to gain excessive influence, arguing that "AI must always serve people" and his company is "unapologetically on Team Humanity" regarding future developments.
  • The OpenAI chief backed a federal framework setting consistent safety requirements, stating that "no amount of American competitive pressure" should justify recklessness or allow capabilities to exceed alignment and monitoring.
  • Warning that "the results could be extremely dystopian," Altman urged governments and AI labs to collaborate on shared safety standards, ensuring technology serves humanity without any single entity gaining excessive power.
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Sam Altman reported two ways in which, in his view, artificial intelligence could evolve in a "very negative" way. (ANSA)

·Rome, Italy
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Sam Altman issued a new statement on his social networks where he indicated that he could "lose control of the future" in the hands of the AI.Yesterday he had announced that his company would not be on the stock market this year.

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The head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, warned of the threat of antitopia in the event of control of a powerful artificial intelligence by one person. The head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, expressed concern about a possible antitopic scenario, conveys to RIA News. In his view, the danger lies in the possibility that a powerful artificial intelligence may be used by one person or organization to impose its world view. "If an unusually powerful AI is used by on…

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Sam Altman has warned of two main ways in which AI could go “very wrong”. Loss of control over the future of AI: This is something Altman has described as “unacceptable”. He said that AI should “always serve people” and that, to ensure this, safety and harmonization techniques should be kept ahead of the development of the models’ capabilities. Concentration of power: Altman also warned of a world where the power of AI would be largely concentra…

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aninews.in broke the news in India on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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