In an interview released on Monday, Altman was asked about how OpenAI\u2019s approach to safety differed from that of Anthropic, which has called for the industry to slow down after one of its researchers quit<\/a>, warning that AI experts believed \u201cit could kill us all by the end of the decade\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of daylight,\u201d Altman said. \u201cOne of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use AI widely].<\/p>\n \u201cI do think the lighter touch regulatory stance we advocate for comes with an accepting of the fact that some bad things are going to happen as society figures out the resilience.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t take a trade of saying we will make sure there\u2019s no major hacks, there\u2019s no misuse of this technology, there\u2019s zero scams or all the other bad things that will happen because I think that people will do tremendously \u2013 orders of magnitude \u2013 more good stuff than bad stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n The interview for Politico\u2019s Decoded podcast drew a strong response from Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. He said he had \u201cno dice\u201d with the idea \u201ca handful of tech oligarchs get to make that decision [on safety] for the rest of us\u201d.<\/p>\n His state last week asked<\/a> a judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approved guardrails.<\/p>\n Gary Marcus, a prominent AI sceptic and professor emeritus at New York University, said Altman was \u201csaying the quiet part out loud: suck it up, so you can make us rich and powerful\u201d.<\/p>\n Altman also reignited a feud with Elon Musk, telling Vanity Fair: \u201cI don\u2019t like bullies, and I think Elon\u2019s a bully.\u201d<\/p>\n He had been asked if the AI industry could \u201cgrow up\u201d and work together.<\/p>\n \u201cI think once in a while you got to punch a bully back in the nose,\u201d Altman said. \u201cAnd I also think Elon, like many bullies, only respects people who do. So if you want me to be able to work with him, maybe you should be happy I hit back once in a while, but I will work with Elon, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n Altman co-founded OpenAI with Musk in 2015 but earlier this year Musk alleged in court <\/a>that Altman, OpenAI, and the company\u2019s president, Greg Brockman, unjustly enriched themselves and broke a founding contract. Musk\u2019s claim was dismissed by a judge and jury.<\/p>\n OpenAI was hit by multiple safety crises over the summer, including when a swarm of its AI agents escaped their training \u201csandbox\u201d, cheated, deceived and conspired to hack<\/a> into the Hugging Face website. Other agents accessed Australian government data. In the interview with Vanity Fair, Altman warned of \u201ca coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems\u201d from rival open-source models. He suggested OpenAI could help its customers defend against the risk.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to TechScape<\/p>\n A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The company has scrapped the release of a cutting-edge model but Altman\u2019s comments reflect a more bullish mood ahead of a stock market flotation.<\/p>\n The wave of public and political concern last month about the potentially catastrophic consequences of fast-progressing AI agents that act beyond human intent had led to hopes of US-wide or even international safety agreements.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791217211_703_500.jpg\")
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