AnalysisPolicyOctober 5, 2026

Sam Altman says 'some bad things' will happen but AI is worth it

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On Politico's Decoded podcast, the OpenAI CEO said society should tolerate hacks, scams, and "other bad things" because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI. He framed OpenAI as "pragmatic centrists" between Anthropic's caution and no regulation, and said the company is preparing to disclose more model incidents.

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