Term Limit Sam Altman is taking a victory lap after being unsuccessfully ousted as CEO of OpenAI — and after his triumphant return, he’s already back to saying weird stuff in public again. As Bloomberg reports, Altman is again on the speech circuit and was quoted waxing prolific about the many ways he thinks artificial intelligence will “lift the world up.” Weirdly, the now-famous CEO also said that he’s fascinated with rogue AI in science fiction like the killer robots depicted in the “Terminator” franchise, during his first public appearance since the so-called “Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck” just before Thanksgiving that saw OpenAI’s board try and fail to stage a coup. “All those thoughts about the ways that this could go wrong, you don’t need much imagination because we grew up with that in the media,” Altman said during a global forum hosted by the rights group Operation HOPE in Atlanta earlier this week. “That’s why we work so hard on safety. But we also believe you cannot build this safely in a vacuum.” Safety Dance AI safety was, as some (but not all) suggest, the impetus for Altman’s ouster in the first place. While public statements have only indicated that three since-resigned OpenAI board members accused him of dishonesty, insider reports paint a broader picture of tensions between the CEO’s push to create smarter and smarter AI and a smaller internal faction who believe the tech they’re helping build needs to be rolled out much more slowly, to ensure it doesn’t do…Sam Altman Says He’s Fascinated With the Terminator

Term Limit Sam Altman is taking a victory lap after being unsuccessfully ousted as CEO of OpenAI — and after his triumphant return, he’s already back to saying weird stuff in public again. As Bloomberg reports, Altman is again on the speech circuit and was quoted waxing prolific about the many ways he thinks artificial intelligence will “lift the world up.” Weirdly, the now-famous CEO also said that he’s fascinated with rogue AI in science fiction like the killer robots depicted in the “Terminator” franchise, during his first public appearance since the so-called “Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck” just before Thanksgiving that saw OpenAI’s board try and fail to stage a coup. “All those thoughts about the ways that this could go wrong, you don’t need much imagination because we grew up with that in the media,” Altman said during a global forum hosted by the rights group Operation HOPE in Atlanta earlier this week. “That’s why we work so hard on safety. But we also believe you cannot build this safely in a vacuum.” Safety Dance AI safety was, as some (but not all) suggest, the impetus for Altman’s ouster in the first place. While public statements have only indicated that three since-resigned OpenAI board members accused him of dishonesty, insider reports paint a broader picture of tensions between the CEO’s push to create smarter and smarter AI and a smaller internal faction who believe the tech they’re helping build needs to be rolled out much more slowly, to ensure it doesn’t do…Sam Altman Says He’s Fascinated With the Terminator