Sam Altman

We were going to lose something so critical about how we teach our children and what it means to be a responsible member of society.

And if you could just look up any fact instantly.

You didn't even have to like fire up the combustion engine, drive to the library, look in the card catalog, find a book.

It was just there.

It felt unjust.

It felt wrong.

It felt like we were going to lose something.

We weren't going to do that.

And with all of these, what happens is like we get better tools, expectations go up, but so does what someone's capable of.

And we just learn how to do more difficult, more impactful, more interesting, whatever things.

And I expect AI to be like that too.

If you asked someone a few years ago, A, will there be a system as powerful as O1 in 2024?

And B, if an oracle told you you were wrong, and there will be, how much would the world change?

How much would your day-to-day life change?

How would we face an existential risk or whatever?

Almost everybody you asked would have said definitely not on the first one.

But if I'm wrong and it happens, like, we're pretty fucked on the second.

And yet, this amazing thing happened and here we are.

So...

I have two conflicting thoughts here.