Sam Altman

Let me first talk about the sort of general concept of people sometimes preferring the actual output of something if it's AI until they're told that it's AI and then they don't like it.

You see that over and over again.

I saw a recent study that even among people who claimed that they really hated AI art the most that the scale that you choose, they still selected more output of AI than humans for the pieces of art they liked the most until they were told which was AI and which wasn't.

And then, of course, it was different.

We could pick many other examples, but this trend that AI has in many ways caught up to us, and yet we are hardwired to care about humans and not AI.

I think is a very good sign.

We're all in speculation here, and as I'll say, I have a very high uncertainty on all of us.

But although you will probably talk more to an AI than you do today, you will still really care about when you're talking to a human.

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.