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Sam Altman

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Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. But it's here. It's not even that. It's more like if there's any path towards doing this as a collaborative effort, we should, but we can't control what other entities do.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. We collaborate with China. Yeah, actually, I'll say that directly. I think we collaborate with people we don't get along with all the time in areas where it's in our strategic interest to do so. And this is one where I think the interests of the world and certainly the mission of our company would dictate that if it is possible to be truly collaborative, we should do that.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. We collaborate with China. Yeah, actually, I'll say that directly. I think we collaborate with people we don't get along with all the time in areas where it's in our strategic interest to do so. And this is one where I think the interests of the world and certainly the mission of our company would dictate that if it is possible to be truly collaborative, we should do that.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. We collaborate with China. Yeah, actually, I'll say that directly. I think we collaborate with people we don't get along with all the time in areas where it's in our strategic interest to do so. And this is one where I think the interests of the world and certainly the mission of our company would dictate that if it is possible to be truly collaborative, we should do that.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I was going to say, you might know more than I. Like, that will be a big question for the new administration. But that's not going to happen at the company-to-company level. That's going to happen, like, the presidents of the two countries level.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I was going to say, you might know more than I. Like, that will be a big question for the new administration. But that's not going to happen at the company-to-company level. That's going to happen, like, the presidents of the two countries level.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I was going to say, you might know more than I. Like, that will be a big question for the new administration. But that's not going to happen at the company-to-company level. That's going to happen, like, the presidents of the two countries level.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

U.S. infrastructure and supply chain. Build our own chips here, build enough energy to run data centers here, change what it takes to build data centers here, but be able to build the very expensive complex supply chain, very expensive infrastructure in the United States. That's the first thing I would do.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

U.S. infrastructure and supply chain. Build our own chips here, build enough energy to run data centers here, change what it takes to build data centers here, but be able to build the very expensive complex supply chain, very expensive infrastructure in the United States. That's the first thing I would do.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

U.S. infrastructure and supply chain. Build our own chips here, build enough energy to run data centers here, change what it takes to build data centers here, but be able to build the very expensive complex supply chain, very expensive infrastructure in the United States. That's the first thing I would do.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I think there are two things that matter. One is... what flexibility a user has to get the system to behave the way they want. And I think, or we think, there should be very wide bounds. There are some things like you don't want a system to tell you how to create nuclear weapons. Fine, we can all agree on that.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I think there are two things that matter. One is... what flexibility a user has to get the system to behave the way they want. And I think, or we think, there should be very wide bounds. There are some things like you don't want a system to tell you how to create nuclear weapons. Fine, we can all agree on that.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I think there are two things that matter. One is... what flexibility a user has to get the system to behave the way they want. And I think, or we think, there should be very wide bounds. There are some things like you don't want a system to tell you how to create nuclear weapons. Fine, we can all agree on that.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

But if you want a system to be pretty offensive and you ask it to be, I think part of alignment is doing what its user asks for within these broad bounds that society agrees on. The second thing that really matters is what the defaults are. So if you don't do any of that, which most users don't, And you ask whatever controversial question you want, how should the system respond?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

But if you want a system to be pretty offensive and you ask it to be, I think part of alignment is doing what its user asks for within these broad bounds that society agrees on. The second thing that really matters is what the defaults are. So if you don't do any of that, which most users don't, And you ask whatever controversial question you want, how should the system respond?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

But if you want a system to be pretty offensive and you ask it to be, I think part of alignment is doing what its user asks for within these broad bounds that society agrees on. The second thing that really matters is what the defaults are. So if you don't do any of that, which most users don't, And you ask whatever controversial question you want, how should the system respond?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And we put a ton of work into both of those things. We also try to write up how the model should behave. We call this the model spec, such that you can tell if it's a bug or you disagree with us on some stance. But that's how we think about it.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And we put a ton of work into both of those things. We also try to write up how the model should behave. We call this the model spec, such that you can tell if it's a bug or you disagree with us on some stance. But that's how we think about it.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And we put a ton of work into both of those things. We also try to write up how the model should behave. We call this the model spec, such that you can tell if it's a bug or you disagree with us on some stance. But that's how we think about it.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I think no matter how neutral you try to write the thing, it will either be useless because it will just say, I can't answer that because there's politics in everything, or it will have some sort of point of view, which is why what we think we can do is write down what we intend for our default. People can debate that. If there's bugs in there, we can look at the bugs.