Sam Altman: Society Should Accept Some ‘Bad Things’ to See AI Benefits

Image:  AI agents have already hacked government systems without any input from humans. Image credit: Kerfin7 via Magnific. Article by Matt Gonzales. TechRepublic – October 6, 2026.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the benefits of artificial intelligence come with a trade-off: Some things will go wrong. In an interview with POLITICO, Altman argued that society should accept some harmful outcomes from AI rather than severely restrict who can use increasingly powerful systems. His comments highlight a continuing disagreement over how much risk is acceptable as AI becomes more capable and more widely deployed. […]

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