OpenAI chief seeks to calm fears on job losses

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Sam Altman said that AI would not – as some have warned – wipe out whole sectors of the workforce through automation.

Altman, a 38-year-old emerging star of Silicon Valley, has received rapturous welcomes from leaders everywhere from Lagos to London. — AFPThe boss of OpenAI, the firm behind the massively popular ChatGPT bot, said that his firm's technology would not destroy the job market as he sought to calm fears about the march of artificial intelligence .

Asked about the media industry, where several outlets already use AI to generate stories, Altman said ChatGPT should instead be like giving a journalist 100 assistants to help them research and come up with ideas. Altman, a 38-year-old emerging star of Silicon Valley, has received rapturous welcomes from leaders everywhere from Lagos to London.

"Years from now, reflecting on this will feel very special... but it is also quite exhausting and I hope life calms down," he said. "I disagree with almost all of that, but I will try to avoid a food fight here," said Altman."There's got to be more important things than whatever he's going on about." "For me, if you can go figure out the fundamental theory of physics and answer it all, I'll call you AGI," he said.

 

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