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Worries about overreacting to AI safety creating a freedomless surveillance society.
Worries about overreacting to AI safety creating a freedomless surveillance society.
Sam Altman says a good long-term outcome requires people gaining freedom and agency each year, and he is particularly worried about overreacting to AI safety by creating a comfortable but freedomless surveillance society.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Source timestamp
- 36:07
- Context timestamp
- 35:37
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