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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will usher in a golden age. Here’s why

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OpenAI ’s CEO, Sam Altman , says AI will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial.

He says the Intelligence Age, as he calls it, will be a time of abundance.

The march of technology has brought what were once luxuries to everyday people.

But Altman is not acknowledging the whole story.

If a model from OpenAI , Google , or Anthropic came up with an injectable cure for Covid tomorrow , you know exactly what would happen.

If we indeed develop AGI in a few thousand days , as Altman predicts, would it be proud of us? The human problem that AI will never solve is humanity itself, in all its glory and shame.

Hillis : If we're ever going to make a thinking machine, we're going to have to build things that are more complex than we can understand.

Hillis ' book, " The Perfect Thing ," was written about the cultural impact of iPods .

He says the book looks forward to how our love of cool technology shapes us.