OpenAI CEO Sam Altman assures that human care for each other will not be replaced by AI in WEF 2024.
During a session on ‘Technology in a Turbulent World’ at the World Economic Forum (WEF 2024), OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about the risks of AI. Altman emphasized that AI will not replace human care for one another, drawing a parallel to how computers did not eliminate the game of chess. Despite its current limitations and flaws, Altman highlighted that people are discovering ways to leverage AI for significant productivity and other benefits while also acknowledging its limitations.
“People understand the tools and the limitations of the tools more than we often give them credit for. People have found ways to make ChatGPT very useful for them and understand what not to use it for,” he said.
Altman said AI has been somewhat demystified because people are actually using it now. And that’s always the best way to move the world forward with new technology.
The CEO of OpenAI said that AI can explain its reasoning to us.
“I can’t look into your brain to understand why you think.. what you think. But I can ask you to explain your reasoning and decide whether it makes sense to me or not.
“I think our AI systems can do the same thing. They can explain to us in natural language the steps from A to B, and we can decide if we think those are good steps, even if we don’t examine it to see every connection,” he explained.
Altman said that when IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, commentators said it would be the end of chess and no one would bother to watch or play chess again.
But chess has never been more popular than it is now, and almost no one watches two AIs play each other. We are very interested in what people do, he said.
“People know what other people want. People are going to have better tools. We’ve had better tools before, but we’re still very focused on each other,” Altman said.
He said that humans process more ideas, and AI will change certain roles by giving people space to make ideas and choices.
He also welcomed the review of artificial intelligence technology.
“I think it’s good that we and others are held to a high standard. We can learn from the past about how technology has been made secure and how different stakeholders have handled negotiations about what secure means,” he added.
Altman said it’s the tech industry’s responsibility to get society’s input on decisions like values and security thresholds so that the benefits outweigh the risks.
“I’m very empathetic to the world’s general nervousness and discomfort with companies like ours…We have our own nervousness, but we believe we can get through it, and the only way to do that is to put the technology in people’s hands.
“Let society and technology evolve together and kind of step by step with a very tight feedback loop and course correction to build these systems that deliver tremendous value and meet security requirements,” he said.
Altman predicted that new economic models will develop for content.
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