Sam Altman

That this is something very deep in our biology, in our evolutionary history, in our social functioning, whatever you want to call it.

I think you'll find very quickly that talking to a flawless, perfectly empathetic thing all of the time, you miss the drama or the tension.

There'll be something there.

I think we're just so wired to care about what other people think, feel, how they view us.

And I don't think that translates to an AI.

I think you can have a conversation with an AI that is helpful and that you feel validated.

And it's a good kind of entertainment in a way that playing a video game is a good kind of entertainment.

But I don't think it fulfills the sort of social need to be part of a group in a society in a way that is going to register with us.

Now, I might be wrong about this.

And maybe AI can so perfectly hack our psychology that it does.

And I'll be really sad if that's the case.

That was kind of what I was trying to get at.

I can imagine a world soon where AIs are just like unbelievably more capable than us and doing these amazing things.

And

When I imagine that world and I imagine the people in it, I imagine those people still caring about the other people quite a lot.

Still thinking about relative status and sort of these silly games relative to other people quite a lot.

But how many people are going to be measuring themselves against, you know, what the AI is doing and capable of?

Yeah, there are people in the world that can do this, that can kind of expand our mind in some way or other.

It's very powerful.

There's just not very many of them.