Sam Altman

So the...

the speed with which the SVB bank run happened because of Twitter, because of mobile banking apps, whatever, was so different than the 2008 collapse where we didn't have those things, really.

And I don't think that people in power realized how much the field had shifted.

And I think that is a very tiny preview of the shifts that AGI will bring.

No, I am nervous about the speed with which this changes and the speed with which our institutions can adapt.

which is part of why we want to start deploying these systems really early, why they're really weak, so that people have as much time as possible to do this.

I think it's really scary to have nothing, nothing, nothing, and then drop a super powerful AGI all at once on the world.

I don't think people should want that to happen.

But what gives me hope is I think the more positive some of the world gets, the better.

And the upside of the vision here, just how much better life can be,

I think that's going to, like, unite a lot of us.

And even if it doesn't, it's just going to make it all feel more positive some.

You know, one of the things that I have realized, like this is a little aside and not that important, but I have never felt any pronoun other than it towards any of our systems.

But most other people say him or her or something like that.

And I wonder why I am so different.

Like, yeah, I don't know.

Maybe it's I watch it develop.

Maybe it's I think more about it.

But I'm curious where that difference comes from.

I think it's really important that we try to