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AI benefits justify continued efforts to make it safer
AI benefits justify continued efforts to make it safer
Altman argues that AI's potential economic and personal benefits are large enough that society should focus on improving safety rather than withholding the technology entirely.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- AI Safety
- Source timestamp
- 30:42
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