Sam Altman: ‘A Country Rejecting Artificial Intelligence Would Be Similar to Rejecting Electricity’

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ALTMAN: “Again, I’m biased, trying to talk my book here. Forgive me for this analogy. I think it would be approximately as bad of an idea to say we’re not going to have AI in our country as it was to say we’re not going to have electricity in our country, you know, back hundred plus years ago. I think this is something at that level. This is something that every person in every business, and really, the entire machine of society, is going to need to deliver the quality of life that your citizens should demand. Now, electricity also came with some complexities and it took a little while for us to figure out how to make it safe, but we made fairly rapid progress in society to make it generally pretty safe, even though it can do a lot of bad things. And at this point we barely think about electricity. We turn these lights on, we expect them to work.”