Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
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Barry Diller defended Sam Altman's character but warned that the unpredictable risks of AGI make personal trust secondary to the need for AI guardrails.Summary
Media mogul Barry Diller recently expressed confidence in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, describing him as a sincere individual with good values. However, Diller emphasized that focusing on individual trust is misguided because the rapid development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) presents existential unknowns that even its creators cannot predict or control. Diller argues that society must prioritize the implementation of robust guardrails to manage these technologies, warning that failing to do so could lead to an AGI force governing its own development, a situation from which there may be no return.
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