North America · 16 September 2026 to 18 September 2026 · 3 headlines · BBC News, Fox News
OpenAI's push for AI trust
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, speaking Tuesday at a Salesforce-hosted conference in San Francisco, argued the public should trust AI companies to 'do the right thing' even while acknowledging that fear of the technology is justified given how fast its capabilities have advanced. It was his first public comment since an Anthropic researcher's viral resignation post warned AI could pose an extinction-level threat within a decade -- a claim praised by Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk, and one that pushed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to call for slowing AI development and for governments to step in with regulation.
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