The prospect of creating systems smarter than humans should be scary and it would be a bad sign if Altman didn't feel fear about it, suggesting that appropriate emotional responses to AGI development are important signals of good judgment.

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Sam Altman

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it of course does and I think it would be like really weird and uh a bad sign if it didn't scare me

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The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk] - Sam Altman (OpenAI)Stanford eCorner
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:37:11 PM

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