Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024.
Altman was temporarily booted from OpenAI in November in a shock move that laid bare concerns around the governance of the companies behind the most powerful AI systems.
In a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Altman said his ouster was a "microcosm" of the stresses faced by OpenAI and other AI labs internally.
"We're already seeing areas where AI has the ability to unlock our understanding ... where humans haven't been able to make that type of progress.
Avoiding a 's--- show'Altman wasn't the only top tech executive asked about AI risks at Davos.
Persons:
Sam Altman, Google's DeepMind, Salesforce, Altman, chatbot, We've, it's, Aidan Gomez, OpenAI, Gomez, CNBC's Arjun Kharpal, AGI, it'll, Lila Ibrahim, Ibrahim, CNBC's Kharpal, who've, haven't, Marc Benioff, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, Geoffrey Hinton, Hinton, Benioff
Organizations:
Economic, Bloomberg, Getty, Microsoft, Union, ABC News, ABC, OpenAI, CBS
Locations:
Davos, Switzerland, United States, Cohere, Hiroshima