Sam Altman

As a for-profit, too much will happen.

So we need this sort of strange intermediate.

where apple and these and meta are playing we can't control what other people are going to do um we can try to like build something and talk about it and influence others and provide value and you know good systems for the world but they're going to do what they're going to do now i i think right now there's like

extremely fast and not super deliberate motion inside of some of these companies but already i think people are as they see the rate of progress already people are grappling with what's at stake here and i think the better angels are going to win out can you elaborate on that the better angels of individuals the individuals and companies but you know the incentives of capitalism to create and capture unlimited value

I'm a little afraid of, but again, no, I think no one wants to destroy the world.

No one wakes up saying like today, I want to destroy the world.

So we've got the Malik problem.

On the other hand, we've got people who are very aware of that.

And I think a lot of healthy conversation about how can we collaborate to minimize some of these very scary downsides.

And even then, like, we're on a team of many.

There'll be many teams.

But... Several teams.

Small number of people, nevertheless, relative.

I do think it's strange that it's maybe a few tens of thousands of people in the world.

A few thousands of people in the world.

That happens more often than you would think now.

But yes, there will be more such rooms.

For sure.

Look, I don't... I think you want...

Decisions about this technology and certainly decisions about who is running this technology to become increasingly democratic over time.