OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race

I think we're seeing, finally, little previews of this with ChatGPT ... Everyone in the world can have an amazing tutor on their phone with them all the time for anything they want to learn.

Everybody needs to know about this. AGI should not go be built in a secret lab with only the people who are privileged and smart enough to understand it. Part of the reason that we deploy this is I think we need the input of the world, and the world needs familiarity with what is in the process of happening.

I don't think it would be good right now for us to open source GPT-4, for example. I think that would cause some degree of havoc in the world, or at least there's a chance of that; we can't be certain that it wouldn't.

I got convinced that AGI was going to happen and be the most important thing I could ever work on. I think it is going to transform our society in many ways.

What I am personally most excited about is [AI] helping us greatly expand our scientific knowledge. I am a believer that a lot of our forward progress comes from increasing scientific discovery over a long period of time.

I do think that SVB was an unusually bad case, but also, if the regulator's aren't catching that, what are they doing?