Sam Altman's Insights on AI and Innovation in Africa

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is on a world tour to calm fears about AI and get ahead of conversations about AI regulation. At a recent talk in London, Altman repeated familiar talking points, noting that people are right to be worried about the effects of AI but that its potential benefits, in his opinion, are much greater. He welcomed the prospect of regulation but only the right kind, stressing that too many rules could harm smaller companies and the open source movement. Altman also addressed the topic of misinformation and the challenge of keeping increasingly powerful AI systems under control through "alignment." However, protestors outside the talk called for OpenAI and companies like it to stop developing advanced AI systems before they have the chance to harm humanity.