OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he plans to wait before letting his son use AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke candidly about his concerns about artificial intelligence in a new interview with podcaster Laurie Segall, saying he hopes his son hasn’t allowed himself to use such technology yet.

Altman appeared in Thursday’s episode of “Mostly Human”; where Segall asked her about her concerns about parenting in a rapidly evolving technology environment, to which she said it was “probably the riskiest thing she could think of.”

““We’re both raising young boys,” he said. “And I think I’ve told you this before, like we’re both raising young boys, but you’re kind of raising my son, too. “Just like the technology you produce will be integrated into every aspect of my son Charlie’s life.”

“I hope you don’t let him use it yet,” said Altman, who has a young son born via surrogacy last year.

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“I’m definitely not letting him use this,” he said. “When are you going to let your son use this?”

““It hasn’t been there for a while,” said Altman, adding that as a father who is now planning to have more children in his family, people often ask him the following question: “Do you feel more responsibility about how not to destroy the world with artificial intelligence?”

He continued: “My most important mission is not to destroy the world with AI, as if if we do that it doesn’t matter how good everything else is.”

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot that has been highly influential in the AI ​​boom that has marked this decade. Its popularity, ubiquity, and questions regarding its reliability have led to debates about the ethics of its use and potential pitfalls.

Altman added that he often thought about the future world in which his children would grow up, so much so that he wrote letters every night so that his very young children could read his thoughts and better appreciate his thoughts when they grew up. He added that he was eventually told by his lawyers to stop this practice.

Altman noted that it was actually another aspect of technology that gave him pause as a parent.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke candidly about his concerns as a father of young children, hoping he leaves a better world behind. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters)

“What’s changed greatly is how I feel about algorithmic broadcasts and iPads being in the hands of young kids and things like that, and when I watch kids who are a little bit older than me, you can’t take the iPad away,” he said, noting that it was a concern he felt “very strongly.”

Although she says she loves the fact that her son “will grow up in a world where computers are smarter than him and can do anything he wants,” she adds, “I want him to play in the dirt for now.”

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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