OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: 'My kids will never be smarter than...'
OpenAI
cofounder and CEO
Sam Altman
recently stated that
artificial intelligence
(AI) technology will have a net-positive impact on his infant son and any future children. Altman, who announced the birth of his first child in February, expressed his belief that his children will grow up to be more capable due to tools like
ChatGPT
, though not necessarily more intelligent. In the recently released first episode of the OpenAI Podcast, he emphasised that his focus is more on what AI will offer the next generation rather than what it may displace.
'My kids will never be smarter than AI. They will grow up vastly more capable than we grew up, and able to do things that we cannot imagine, and they'll be really good at using AI,'
Altman said during the podcast.
AI may create problems for future societies, Altman says
In the podcast, Altman also mentioned that as AI technology progresses, it will likely create challenges for future societies and social systems, such as a growing reliance on these tools. However, he expressed confidence that the overall benefits will outweigh the potential downsides.
'Again, I suspect this is not all going to be good. There will be problems. People will develop these somewhat problematic — or, maybe, very parasocial relationships, and, well, society will have to figure out new guardrails. But the upsides will be tremendous,'
he said to the podcast's host, Andrew Mayne.
Altman, who referred to himself in the episode as "extremely kid-pilled" (meaning he believes "everybody should have a lot of kids"), also shared that ChatGPT has been a significant part of his parenting approach. He mentioned that during the initial weeks of his son's life, he was "constantly" turning to the AI chatbot for guidance on basic childcare.
"Clearly, people have been able to take care of babies without ChatGPT for a long time. I don't know how I would have done that,'
he noted.
However, later in the episode, Altman acknowledged that ChatGPT is known to "hallucinate", which means it can provide false information and yet many users still place an unexpected level of trust in the chatbot.
"People have a very high degree of trust in ChatGPT, which is interesting, because AI hallucinates. It should be the tech that you don't trust that much,'
he added.
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