Sam Altman

We're now trying to figure out how we're going to select those people, how we'll verify that we get a representative sample, how we'll do different ones for different places, but we don't have that functionality built out yet.

Such a fascinating science.

You clearly don't want all American elite university students giving you your labels.

like and be able to actually like what is the world view look like for all kinds of groups of people that would answer this differently i mean i have to do that uh constantly instead of like you've asked this a few times but it's something i often do you know i ask people in an interview or whatever to steel man uh the beliefs of someone they really disagree with and the inability of a lot of people to even pretend like they're willing to do that is remarkable

Look, I think we'll find out that we can make GPT systems way less biased than any human.

Oh, there might be pressure to make a biased system.

What I meant is the technology, I think, will be capable of being much less biased.

I both worry about it and want it.

Like, you know, to the point of we're in this bubble and we shouldn't make all these decisions.

Like we want society to have a huge degree of input here.

That is pressure in some point, in some way.

I think there's a lot of quirks about me that make me not a great CEO for OpenAI.

But a thing in the positive column is I think I am relatively good at not being affected by pressure for the sake of pressure.

No, no, I'm trying.

What's a good one?

I mean, I think I'm not a great spokesperson for the AI movement.

I'll say that.

I think there could be a more like...

I think I'm like...

pretty disconnected from like the reality of life for most people and trying to really not just like empathize with but internalize what the impact on people that AGI is going to have I probably like feel that less than other people would that's really well put and you said like you're going to travel across the world to yeah I'm excited to empathize with different users not to empathize just to like