Sam Altman

we can make the world amazing and we can make people's lives amazing.

We can cure diseases.

We can increase material wealth.

We can like help people be happier, more fulfilled, all of these sorts of things.

And then people are like, oh, well, no one is going to work.

But people want,

status.

People want drama.

People want new things.

People want to create.

People want to, like, feel useful.

People want to do all these things, and we're just going to find new and different ways to do them, even in a vastly better, like, unimaginably good standard of living world.

So first of all, I will say, I think that

There's some chance of that.

And it's really important to acknowledge it because if we don't talk about it, if we don't treat it as potentially real, we won't put enough effort into solving it.

And I think we do have to discover new techniques to be able to solve it.

I think a lot of the predictions, this is true for any new field, but a lot of the predictions about AI in terms of capabilities, in terms of what the safety challenges and the easy parts are going to be, have turned out to be wrong.

The only way I know how to solve a problem like this is iterating our way through it, learning early, and limiting the number of one-shot-to-get-it-right scenarios that we have.

Well, I can't just pick one AI safety case or AI alignment case, but I think Eliezer wrote a really great blog post.

I think some of his work has been somewhat difficult to follow or had what I view as quite significant logical flaws.