Veee(@vikktorrrre):Sam Altman: There are three ways superintelligent AI could go catastrophically wrong, and the world isn’t taking the threat seriously enough. “An adversary could use superintelligence to design a bioweapon, take down the power grid, or break into the financial system.” “Category two is loss of control, where the AI is like, ‘I don’t actually want you to turn me off.’” “The third category is where the models kind of accidentally take over the world.” “They become so ingrained in society and so much smarter than we are that we can’t really understand what they’re doing.” “Even without a drop of malevolence, society can just veer in a strange direction.”

2026.10.31 15:27

Sam Altman: There are three ways superintelligent AI could go catastrophically wrong, and the world isn’t taking the threat seriously enough. “An adversary could use superintelligence to design a bioweapon, take down the power grid, or break into the financial system.” “Category two is loss of control, where the AI is like, ‘I don’t actually want you to turn me off.’” “The third category is where the models kind of accidentally take over the world.” “They become so ingrained in society and so much smarter than we are that we can’t really understand what they’re doing.” “Even without a drop of malevolence, society can just veer in a strange direction.”