Source: United Nations (video statements)
The Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI, Sam Altman, told the Council that “the best version of AI is not about making people cogs in a giant machine or optimising every part of life until the human parts disappear. It’s about giving people more agency in an ever more complex world, more ability to learn, to create, discover, build, participate.”
Altman said, “there are many things that AI cannot and should not automate. AI should be built for people not simply to turn the crank of the machines faster for their own sake.”
He said, “no one person or company or country should be able to use the most powerful AI models to impose their worldview on everyone else,” and added that “a company or country that believes only it can be trusted with this technology can use that belief to justify almost anything else.”
Altman said, “we don’t want to fall into the trap of blind optimism. We also don’t want to fall into the trap of doomerism either.”