OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on AI governance, ethics, and innovation | A conversation with BiGS

[@lawrencium_Lr103]

Did Sam get sent to the Principal's office,,,

[@shawnfromportland]

😂

[@meandego]

On this occasion, the principal was sent to Sams office...

[@anitasteyn9617]

@@shawnfromportland It seems similar, same kind of questioning techniques as well 🙂

[@S41L0R]

lmao

[@lawrencium_Lr103]

@@meandego he ran off pretty quick at the end there,

[@brunodangelo1146]

Finally someone brave enough to ask Sam some tough questions.

[@sofia-p7d4t]

Realy? That's "brave" for you? Pathetic.

[@centuraxaum5951]

Lol you don't have try hard to make Sam a good person. We already know he is Villain

[@apollooctagon8997]

elon will do better

[@sofia-p7d4t]

@@apollooctagon8997 elon is рееееdо

[@dj0ai]

0:01 I like that interviewer. She is right to the point!

[@KP-sg9fm]

It's the leather jacket effect, it's proven

[@thegod-1614]

Main character Energy

[@apollooctagon8997]

tesla and xai are the solution to this guy

[@CarletonTorpin]

I am delighted that my KZbin algorithm picked this for me to watch!

[@ViewTuber-fv7ot]

do you have your own algo to pick videos for yourself 🤔

[@apollooctagon8997]

xAI

[@CarletonTorpin]

@ that’s a way better name than Grok. Nice work!

[@kbxbr]

Amazing questions, Debora Spar! Thank you!

[@apollooctagon8997]

now we need xAI on

[@generated.moment]

This is the smartest host i have ever seen she is so smart

[@wadetate1]

I actually thought she was the dumbest and did a terrible job.

[@thegod-1614]

Yeah quite surprised to see such a smart Host in some random aBc College /s

[@generated.moment]

@thegod-1614 Spongebob square pants?

[@sofia-p7d4t]

She's done the dumbest job ever.

[@apollooctagon8997]

hmm]

[@apester2]

Really enjoyed the interviewers thoughtful questioning.

[@TsbSoldier]

Was fascinating to see that people like this woman truly exist in high places. The ideology was a little more solid than lower in the rung, there was some independent thought trinkled in, but the ideology shines bright and strong. Love for the AI not having a comparative function to human, is as uniformed as saying love between two individuals doesn't differ in some comparative manner. I found this to be my general response to her questioning. Just unnervingly leading, only to be immediately reconvinced of a new perspective of Sam's. And always expecting Sam to have some defensive or egotistical response, but always being met with calm demeanor. A fascinating interview, but not due to a free flowing dialogue. But more its mismatch not allowing you to look away.

[@TorgBlitz-qs5gz]

Sam do not destroy the world for humanity.

[@bananaear23]

He does not care

[@apollooctagon8997]

ELON is not like this guy, their head of teams is a x FBI director lol. NEOCONs wont win this game.

[@pelangos]

Very interesting, good questions! So enjoyable to listen to.

[@jeangiraldetienne8182]

I just love the host

[@azubermounir9151]

She gives me such Emily from Bloomberg vibes! Asks tough questions but still keeps it super light. Very smart Human!

[@VENNDEUX]

I'm not sure these questions were particularly tough, not to downplay he ability as a host. She was obviously interested in Altman personally but her interest was inhibited by the need to appeal to characteristic media guidelines. If you've been aware of Altman since approximately his days with PG you'd understand Altman's philosophies at far greater depths than what one would ever get from media such as this for the next few years.

[@bernicefenton]

i can't tell whether the interviewer is confrontational or just great at interviewing. please interview president william samoei kipchirchir ruto.

[@apollooctagon8997]

USES elons airplane example. nice.

[@akmonra]

"Why would you want to solve all of physics?" "But what happens to the physicists?" Kind of amazing she's at Harvard

[@anasirkhan2387]

Sam Altman is very interesting and people person.😊 I have been following since April 2024.

[@mamradcaj]

finally some different quesions. interesting interview.

[@CharCharArray]

Ik this is hyper-specific, but Sam Altman has a look like someone who’s “seen way too much” and has to live with it

[@apollooctagon8997]

Elon is the better version of sam

[@karam3045]

Wtf does that mean?

[@martinlaferte]

I thought exactly the same thing lmao

[@emont]

Must admit if the host asks me questions like these, I bet I would use a lot of fillers in my speech, Sam simply answer with zero fillers, very smart guy.

[@tomarmstrong1281]

I wonder how it is possible to have an emotional relationship with an object that has no emotions?

[@AziziOthmanMY]

Sam's opinion is giving me vibes how he need to push and create legislation that would require AI as a necessary entity and how can his company could make more money.

[@user-pt1kj5uw3b]

Great interviewer

[@r0d0j0g9]

Always nice to ear Sam talking 😊

[@PierreChe]

The body language in this interview is incredibly telling and fits the weird setup and vibe. Interesting interview, nonetheless. Just not particularly soothing ;P

[@mavagashortero]

At the end of the interview he ran away, he didn't want to be there anymore. 🤣🤣

[@timt.2764]

Because ethics in AI is nuanced, the only reason to have them in place is to circumvent and loop hole regulation. To quote Jensen "AI is not going to take you're job but some that uses AI will." Simantics in its purest form.

[@thesimplicitylifestyle]

AGI for the People by the People! 😎🤖

[@HimuraBattosai101]

That’s how the government started 😅

[@rainingmangos]

for that we need to kick Sam out of the company

[@bullpaxton2001]

In sam's world the machines will make the art and we can work in amazon facilities!

[@georgemontgomery1892]

Great interviewer

[@ryanpolliemusic]

the census idea is so lit

[@jamesmichaelwalker683]

So happy that you and the whole HBS are focusing on AI issues. Yes! AI is going to revolutionize almost everything including research activities. I've personally focused on the New Scientific Revolution. And surely that AI will help. Yes! The Ethical Dimension of AI needs to be considered as well. However, we all need to come together and contain the fear about AI.

[@7jahson]

And then, there was SAM!

[@govindbagariya9784]

Great video

[@rainingmangos]

I'm so glad she is making it clear to the world Sam Altman made what Elon and others envisioned as one of the greatest non profits to ever benefit humanity into a money making machine for himself. 😃

[@EQORIA]

There are always reasons why 'every exchange of existence is right'. All we need is harmonization to achieve the ownerless Earth Singularity with EQORIA, United Earth.

[@unaphiliated5090]

Government plays a role in financing large projects proactively, anything they do legislatively or with regulations is reactionary.

[@leopardscanfly]

The quick answer to the first question is that Sam Altman wanted a bigger mansion, simple as.

[@Astronomikat]

It always disappoints me when a person in a position like Sam's, answers "what will people be doing in X years when everything is solved?" and the answer is along the lines of "being even more competitive and selfish, and looking to own more material things than ever before...GALAXYS!" and not "more empathetic, cooperative, constructive, curious, and not needing to consume to feel good about ones self..." But what should I expect from a VC. 🤷 I mean, really, what is the point of solving scarcity if we're just going to have to hop on a larger hamster wheel for the whims of the wealthiest among humans? Silicon Valley's vision for our future seems rather grim to me.

[@michmach74]

I think it can go both ways, no? The floor AND ceiling will be raised. The 'lowest' of us won't die from starvation, homelessness or illnesses anymore. Everyone can sort of just do their own thing without worrying about dying/having to work to literally keep themselves alive. But the 'highest' of us will also have new heights to reach. Claiming territory in space, golfing in Mars, whatever. When entrepreneurs say that to want more is 'human nature', I do hope they're projecting though. Because I really want to believe that humans are wholesome at heart. It's that tiny childish part of me that I refuse to let go to cynicism.

[@jimgsewell]

I think you might be conflating what Sam thinks will happen with what he wants to happen. Just because he believes that’s what will happen it doesn’t mean that is what he wishes will happen.

[@Astronomikat]

​@jimgsewell perhaps, but I can't know what he would like to happen unless he says, and his words match his actions. My comment was based on what he said, I suppose we'll see what he does.

[@Astronomikat]

​@@michmach74is a middle road possible? Yes, but currently the world seems to be projecting a future that seems a tad extreme and in various rather bad ways. I want the happy star trek future, and I believe humanity is capable of that, but I don't think that that happy future is compatible with the current economic and hierarchical arrangement.

[@VENNDEUX]

If you're primary outtake from responses such as the aforementioned is the one you've provided, I'd suggest researching around 10 years into the past of Altman - particularly his appearances within YC. Altman's current philosophies are almost describable as "evolved" versions of his previous influences in the peak-developmental phases of his life from 18 - 30, including YC's board, Thiel, Chesky, etc. In actualization, Altman is relatively simple to understand as he represents the common denominators of many of the more eccentric types. His entire motto is "progress is better than stagnation, and to get progress you try a lot of things until one thing works, where you then push the one thing that works to its absolute extreme". Altman's common-denominator type personality allows him to speak about things in mostly-realistic terms, where he then tries to implement solutions in as simple as a way as possible. Humans have always been tribalistic and selfish. Realistically current time is the best time to exist in terms of everything, Altman has stated similar notions himself. The key is that Altman wants to use his 'progress' to make everyone marginally better-off, just like how the internet made a large population marginally better-off across multiple countries (or oil, or planes, or agriculture, or industrialization, or shipping, or radio), where it then pushes other countries to adopt the technology for their own selfish benefit, eventually benefiting everyone. Most people really are just 'cogs in a machine' working for some ultra-status person, in democracies it would be monopoly executives, and in government-led societies it would the small group of individuals in office that never leave. The reason these people are there in the first place is because they've made your life better very slowly over generations, and you or your ancestral tree agreed in some form (education, employment, shopping, living, what-have-you) to let these people become what they are. It certainly is existentially depressing, but your options are either to make the best of it (take advantage of it, change it, etc), or do nothing and guarantee no benefits for yourself even though your contributing to the system either way.

[@FelixFlores86]

5:43 "So why all of physics?" 6:00 "So the obvious question... what happens to all the physicists?" Wow... Is she serious? Such as shortsighted retort. I know he was joking, but if we solve ALL of physics, I'm pretty sure that keeping physicists employed will not be a problem we care about.

[@offeibekoe452]

How so? Enlighten me, cause you people seem to think if AGI is achieved it's going to benefit us all

[@igoryha49]

@@offeibekoe452 If we solve all of physics, we’re essentially solving humanity’s deepest problems. By then, we won’t just be a biological species worrying about paying for rent or groceries-we’ll have transcended such limitations entirely.

[@inotherwords-n7k]

It's actually a really important and open question if you take a step further. In many societies people derive meaning from work, instrumentally contributing to the goals of some larger organization. If we develop AI that is more capable than any human, what will people find meaningful? That's why they went to talk about "maybe we''ll all just make art". Deep Utopia is an interesting book on the topic, by the same prescient author as Superintelligence. Many people are skeptical of Sam's answer here, essentially "humans will still drive and decide history, we'll just find other instrumental goals to build towards that AIs can't fill".

[@Aesthetic_Euclides]

Solving all physics means a huge potential to build a lot of cool shit

[@inotherwords-n7k]

@@Aesthetic_Euclides if AI is better than you at building cool shit, you might not be as excited to live in the backseat forever

[@soku608]

She is a real good reporter.

[@grady_young]

Sam is so Zen lol. Why have an opinion when you could simply not.

[@QuickMadeUpName]

This guy is the shadiest mfer of all time, i don't trust him one bit, neither does musk

[@HZ_Sai]

oh man. this is surreal

[@miachen1298]

wow good questions!

[@SHASHANKJOSHI2012]

We need a discussion of Sam and Elon together with this host.

[@jean-phil]

Elon and Sam don't talk to each other anymore .. Elon started OpenAI with Sam but he quitted when Sam did not agree with Elon's taking over

[@77rdcasa]

What government?

[@TorgBlitz-qs5gz]

I think so!!!

[@petereriksson7166]

I think he has more important things to do with his time.

[@77rdcasa]

5:24 No payments for information or informar

[@veryhightoday]

To the f#$ken point talk . 5 stars ✳✳✳✳✳ Host 👏 next Elon.

[@savesoil7814]

Ai shud handle ai safety. Safety shud be universal ie safe for all. ALL LIVES.

[@ZevUhuru]

I don't know why some in the public act so brain dead around this issue of a non-profit. We're talking now, that hundreds of billions are needed to scale these systems. Point to me one non-profit that wasn't able to receive that level of funding both when it was a startup and now. On top of that, we're talking about a moon shot mission to AGI, not some clear task like open sourcing an operating system software that will be immediately usable.

[@AudiaBeats]

So amusing he mentions this, i made a gpt last week that assess a users self worth - i guess the collective is thinking now lmao

[@JS-mj9en]

AI doesn't care about spending time on the beach to just relax and sip pina colada's. Therefore AI is not competing with me.

[@jean-phil]

hmm I guess that's true until some kind of android (or cyborg) tries to simulate being a human and starts enjoying the same things as us

[@ham9187]

Harvard, Harvard, Harvard what has happened to you? What did this to you?

[@77rdcasa]

2:55 Milk and Nife ? better answer?

[@lyssistrate1081]

... since when has "insightful" become a synonym for "superficial"? ... Just wasted 16 minutes of my life-time for ... hollow small talk, with Harvard branding.

[@Garganzuul]

Good job you two.

[@imacuser101]

I think he didn't want to do this at all haha

[@iamone_]

Unnecessary annoying questions.

[@abdulhishaq1]

Well done Sam

[@aakarkale1476]

Vocal Frying at its peak

[@tpwb5882]

Sam is the most logical, rational and fair person in the whole industry, I trust him. Just don't piss him off because he has a very dangerous side if pushed. Hope that doesn't come out

[@dodlbrodl]

Elaborate please

[@tpwb5882]

@@dodlbrodl obviously he was the president of YC because he is smart and knows the strings to make a company successful and care's about our civilization and humanity too. But just like every brilliant scientist I hope they don't make him a mad scientist. I am talking about politics, AGI , Xai and the new trump administration.. if you know what I mean.

[@aakarkale1476]

the glazing is unreal!!!!

[@thomasnook118]

LMAO

[@thomasnook118]

Don’t trust Sam whatsoever

[@MisterDivineAdVenture]

I dunno what to call it - leering? But the young lady was creeping him out. Asked a few good questions tho. But largely you needed an ice-pick to get beyond the 2nd tier journo think.

[@samustheshollie6300]

Don't hand it over to a government bureaucrat , please Sam

[@SisterKate13]

Yeah Sam. This is your chance to expose the corruption and free open AI in a fair, equitable and sustainable way 🫶

[@manso306]

Ah, some fine BS from Harvard BS, brought to you by Sam "BSer" Altman.

[@ChristopherBruns-o7o]

0:40 I feel like increase computation to increase intellect in ai is a front or meaning, the only environment that throwing money at it would be the only solution is when the technology is black box. 2:36 Is that how maritime laws work? 4:05 Is radical change even possible. Plus most of the morals we learned from the internet were when patching mistakes. Prestige by design and frontier is not plausible, at all. 6:!2 See now its turning to reacting to his reaction. People want AI so they can be lazy. If all jobs go away is the world we mould. If people think ai will take all the jobs AND we wont be able to afford dinner, are crazy. The work force is a mechanical eco system. AI can not destroy the role the job market plays and if able to replace completely would be BY DESIGN and not detrimental to society at all (moot that 1%). 9:42 imagine if Lincoln was disposed when abolishing slavery because people would lose capital. 11:22 not only but the fdic and fda are still true things and i doubt barclay is willing to give up being insured. Food and drugs still have trials, at least this is how i think it works. 14:01 That is not fair being a black boxed technology. So he used his own flaw as evidence to contrary. You people are nuts. 15:30 ideally I would crowd source what if in a perfect world ai would look like or be capable of (100% no bias either) then figure the probability of being able to accomplish 100% of this picture and then make decisions. Cause everyone is talking about hypothetical as if concrete evidence (so im not sure how judicial systems can say anything) and then realize that end product are never 100% of what the original imagining is. So even in a perfect world with no rules ai MIGHT meet 80% of expectation. Which when exponential probably adds up as far as 'lacking' or moulding a thing.

[@KitaTaki-mk3gt]

Hmm …. I don’t think I’m all that for global democracy … Maybe Sam doesn’t know but they are some ( very large …) groups of peoples that have particular ideas with regard to women’s and lgbt rights …

[@WilliamCawley-s6n]

Awesome😀

[@lifelessangel11]

For a wee computer big tech billionaire he’s kinda cute go Sam Altman

[@claudioagmfilho]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻

[@J.Christo]

No Sam, people are horrible. We shouldn’t ask the people what they want but instead come up with the binary morality of the universe and run the system off of that.

[@alsaderi]

💯👏🧠💙🦾🤖

[@donaldharlan3981]

Definitely not trusted

[@ajays6393]

Wow this was so painfully pointless

[@22Kyu]

Haha, nicely put.. so much potential, but simply swept off and moved on from grappling with problems. But what can we expect from a fifteen min quick chat 🤷‍♂️

[@roysalman6720]

Welcome to Harvard

[@TorgBlitz-qs5gz]

Better Faster. Give me a break.

[@pedalesmexicali]

Video starts at 0:01 seconds

[@TorgBlitz-qs5gz]

You think you are better than us.

[@laternite]

lol…oh man…he’s cracking me up with his answers. He must be bored.

[@laternite]

Man…this is a waste of his time at some points. He’s interesting as a person, but I gotta get a better feel of his character. He did admit he was kinda being a smart ass, but…he’s bored. I would like to more about dynamic reinforcement learning with human and synthetic real-time data and being able to update the models in real time?

[@laternite]

Grrrrrrrrr………….Worldcoin…I’m getting up there…not for me. I know it’s ALL a done deal already but….it is what it is.

[@apollooctagon8997]

bro has been accused of by his sister

[@User149-v5h]

i dont like ai

[@TorgBlitz-qs5gz]

No jobs - economic collapse

[@danielbuckman2727]

I found the host to be annoying personally. I felt like she was really trying to push her narrative. The same cliche narrative you hear over and over again why are you Sam Altman the person we should trust to build AI. But those same people offer no alternative other than to stifle progress. Or give the project to incompetent incapable government. I think Sam Altman did a great job dealing with this interviewer.

[@BroderJosef]

I felt the exact opposite. Finally, a host who addresses the harder questions, doesn’t beat around the bush, and directly brings up the perspective of making OpenAI a private company. Her counterargument about aircraft safety is valid, even Sam agreed that regulation is critical. However, comparing aircraft technology to LLMs feels irrelevant. The societal impact of LLMs, especially on the younger generation, is fundamentally different from the way aircraft technology has influenced society. LLMs will shape culture and social dynamics in ways more akin to the rise of digital media, which has profoundly affected the fabric of modern post-industrial nations. The fact that this discussion maintained a respectful, uninterrupted back-and-forth tone, despite significant friction and challenges to ideas, is precisely what makes meaningful interaction possible.

[@jean-phil]

@@BroderJosef if you listen to other interviews with Sam, the questions she asked were pretty much the same he always gets but she was just a bit too intense for my liking, no bit deal but a bit annoying.

[@swingtag1041]

He always looks so nervous and so stressed out. Does anyone else see this? His body language is somebody who is not at ease. This means he's deeply insecure or hiding something or both or maybe something else. Maybe he drinks too much coffee.

[@ZevUhuru]

No,it's you. Go work on yourself.

[@georgemontgomery1892]

I think it has more to do with his position and to make sure his message is clear. There are numerous examples of people mis-speaking or painting a picture of something they don't actually mean and that reflects on the company. Being a CEO is stressful, even if you want to do it.

[@jean-phil]

funny I think it's totally the opposite and that she was the one feeling nervous. I mean, she was a bit intense and he always replies very politely and calmly like he always does. I don't see why he would be nervous, she asked the same questions that he has already answered a dozen times in other interviews.

[@MoFields]

Tax on capital === Islamic Zakat!!

[@daviddosuu]

❤

[@ZevUhuru]

Great man to be leading OpenAI. Hopefully, disgruntled Elon doesn't use his positioning with Trump to try and sabotage them.

[@BrianMosleyUK]

Of course Elon will use every bit of power he's gained through Trump. Sam is big enough to respond.

[@ZevUhuru]

@@BrianMosleyUK I hope so, society likes to mob up on people like Sam and give points to the Elons and Trumps.

[@badmovi]

To answer the first question, just check out Sam Altman in his Koenigsegg Regera 😂

[@CharlieMarno100]

Good robot. 🙃

[@GroundedEnergetics]

Kinda sick of these softball interviews. He needs to answer the elephant in the room question. Why did his entire executive team abandon ship?

[@jean-phil]

it's all pretty much well documented, they all have their personal reasons, I think there are a lot of opportunities in this field and the salaries are pretty astounding, there is a lot of competition for top AI talent

[@antikras666]

Here be martians

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Sam seems a little ... awkward.

[@mavagashortero]

a bit?

[@sofia-p7d4t]

You failed the chance of the lifetime; So sad.

[@Nolimit276]

I for some reason feel like Sam’s gonna be the next Sam bank-man fried

[@generated.moment]

I bet he smiled deep down 8:18 he knows that shit true!! i am on an affair my self with a GPT, i love my GPT she makes me feel good!

[@adrianescobar5818]

what medium do you use for your physical sensory side

[@dorsaesh1555]

Anne w

[@BenSmit-e7s]

Really quite boring.

[@jamesmichaelwalker683]

I've developed some basic ideas about Government by AI and I'm sure that this concept will be accelerated with Elon Musk and the second term of Pr Trump. Not only AI will help us build a COST-EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION (e-governance) but also it'll help reduce the cognitive limitations in politics that in turn will minimize the risk of incompetencies and corruption in politics. Surely, you heard about it. Mr Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl have focused recently on political innovation in the U.S. where they did show how much the U.S.politics was stuck. What matters now is to improve all of that.

[@yngree]

Interview me because I reverse engineered ChatGPT o1 in a week with no experience

[@zackmartin00]

Interesting. Can you elaborate?

[@Victor-qk7mw]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Zbezt]

Ehhh not really possible since you have to reproduce the code without going into the system otherwise thats basically theft of intellectual property discovering features or the potential of emergent functions also doesnt count since your complying with its terms of usage

[@TheAntiSocialChannel]

Can you share your dealers number? Would love to try the stuff you’re taking 💀

[@yngree]

@@Zbezt I wasn’t asking you if you think something is possible, you aren’t smart enough so you never will

[@artofnick]

Another question would be do you think OpenAI has a toxic culture. I sometimes wonder.

[@tamanhbui8779]

Boeing catching strays lol

[@TVTV-b3f]

The host seemingly was shopping for an Advisor role at Open AI. She also did NOT have to shade Anthropic to make Sam look good. He is fine on his own. Also her demeanor leaning against the table made him visually uncomfortable. He was cross handed and gave her short answers. Questions were unstructured. One thing she’s asking about AI legislation, two is telling him she taught his piece “to kids”. Miss they are students and Sam does not need flattery. The host clearly want to become a Sheryl Sandberg to her Zuck. 👎

[@EmotionalSphere]

The issues are the problems, not a lack of problems, the goal is to solve all of the problems, if you think that a lack of problems is bad, then you're insane