Embodied AI systems pose different safety risks than text-based systems - the risks are not necessarily greater overall but manifest differently, such as physical harm from robot malfunction or misalignment

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Sam Altman

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I don't know about way riskier. I think like the ability to make a bioweapon or like take down a country's whole grid, you can do quite damaging things without physical stuff. It gets riskier in like sillier ways.

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Sam Altman on The Future of AI | Ep. 13Uncapped with Jack Altman
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:10:52 AM

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