Sam Altman was recently asked on Bloomberg why the artificial intelligence (AI) industry has failed to convince ordinary people that any of this is good for them. He agreed that it has failed, said OpenAI is part of the problem, and then argued that the industry's most common answer to the question is not good enough, either.
"You hear some people talk about, 'Well, we're going to give you a cure for cancer, and that's so great. So we're going to take these risks and you're going to have to have less power and autonomy,'" he said. "We want people to have more power and autonomy. I don't think a cure for cancer is enough."