SAM ALTMAN SAYS THE WORST AI SALES PITCH TRADES HUMAN AUTONOMY FOR SAFETY
The danger is using AI risk as a reason to centralise power and limit human agency:
- Some in AI frame the trade-off as curing disease and making things cheap in exchange for people giving up autonomy
- That could still create rampant inequality, where some get huge wealth and power while others get “a pretty good everything”
- Altman says fear around AI safety can become a justification for power-seeking behaviour