Sam Altman Congress Hearing "AI is the Biggest Threat to Human Race"

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Senator asks Sam Alton about how AI will impact jobs he references a statement that some often mean about the greatest threat to humanity perhaps mistakenly attributing the two jobs now Sam Alton answers the question as it was posed but when it's time for Gary Marcus to speak he jumps in to clarify something take a listen I think you have said in fact and I'm going to quote development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity end quote you may have had in mind the effect on on jobs which is really my biggest nightmare in the long term let me ask you uh what your biggest nightmare is and whether you share that concern and last I don't know if I'm allowed to do this but I will note that Sam's worst fear I do not think is employment and he never told us what his worst fear actually is and I think it's germane to find out thank you I'm gonna ask strawman if he cares to respond look we have tried to be very clear about the magnitude of the risks here I I think jobs and employment and what we're all going to do with our time really matters I agree that when we get to very powerful systems the landscape will change I think I'm just more optimistic that we are incredibly creative and we find new things to do with better tools and that will keep happening um my worst fears are that we cause significant we the field the technology the industry cause significant harm to the world I think that could happen in a lot of different ways it's why we started the company it's a big part of why I'm here today and why we've been here in the past and we've been able to spend some time with you I think if this technology goes wrong it can go quite wrong and we want to be vocal about that we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening but we we try to be very clear-eyed about what the downside case is and the work that we have to do to mitigate that thank you [Music]