Just three years since ChatGPT launched to the world, it has upended industries, accelerated scientific discovery, and sparked visions in which diseases are cured and workweeks shrink. Yet the same technology fueling those promises is also creating a host of new anxieties—and no one feels that more acutely than the man who helped unleash it.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just revealed that there is a “long list of things” that haven’t been so great about ChatGPT’s rapid rise, starting with the speed at which it has reshaped the world. The very system that could eradicate illnesses, he said on The Tonight Show, can also be misused in ways society isn’t remotely prepared for.
