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Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a crime & justice story. The Verge is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 5 Oct 2026, 16:44 UTC. The headline in use is “Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude…
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- First reported by The Verge
Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
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