{"slug": "sam-altman-reveals-two-ways-ai-can-go-very-badly-as-he-addresses-concerns-from", "title": "Sam Altman reveals two ways AI can go 'very badly' as he addresses concerns following chilling warning from whistleblower", "summary": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post late Sunday that AI could go 'very badly' in two ways: humanity losing control of AI's future, which he called 'unacceptable,' and a world with 'too much concentration of power' where one person or company uses an extraordinarily powerful AI to impose their worldview. Altman said OpenAI is cooperating with other executives to slow progress, writing 'When we talk about \"pacing,\" we don't mean \"stopping\"' and that 'No amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness.' His comments followed the resignation of whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, who said on X that 'Neither company is acting responsibly' and that they are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.'", "body_md": "# Sam Altman reveals two ways AI can go 'very badly' as he addresses concerns following chilling warning from whistleblower\n\n- **See more Daily Mail on Google - [save us as a Preferred Source](https://google.com/preferences/source?q=dailymail.com)**\n\n[Sam Altman](/sciencetech/openai/index.html) revealed two ways he believes [artificial intelligence](/sciencetech/ai/index.html) can go 'very badly' as he called to [slow the technology's rapid progress.](/news/article-16125913/Anthropic-CEO-AI-slow-whistleblower-warning.html)\n\nAltman, the CEO of [ChatGPT](/sciencetech/chatgpt/index.html) maker OpenAI, shared his concerns in an X post late Sunday night following last week's chilling [warning from an AI whistleblower](/news/article-16128445/Treat-AI-new-species-disempower-whistleblower.html).\n\n'There are two ways AI could go very badly and that we must avoid,' he posted on X.\n\n'First, we could lose control of the future of AI,' an option Altman said is 'unacceptable.'\n\n'We are unapologetically on Team Humanity and AI must always serve people,' he declared. 'To ensure that, we need to ensure that alignment and safety techniques stay ahead of progress in model capabilities.'\n\nThe other concern, Altman said, is if we 'end up in a world with too much concentration of power.\n\n'If an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impress their worldview onto everyone else, the results could be extremely dystopian.'\n\nFor these reasons, Altman said he is cooperating with other executives to slow the progress on the rapidly evolving technology.\n\nSam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, revealed the two ways he sees the rapid progress on artificial intelligence ending 'very badly'\n\nAltman has called for progress to slow down on the rapidly evolving technology\n\nJacob Coxon, a former researcher for OpenAI and Anthropic, the companies behind chatbots ChatGPT and Claude, joined Baier on Wednesday for a Special Report\n\n'When we talk about \"pacing,\" we don't mean \"stopping,\"' he shared in an earlier post.\n\n'Progress has been rapid and will continue to be. But it should be slower than it otherwise could be,' he said, noting that safety issues could come with serious costs.\n\n'Pacing will be well worth the cost,' Altman then argued. 'No amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring.'\n\n'The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened,' he added.\n\n'Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot.'\n\nAltman's plea comes after the [resignation of whistleblower Jacob Coxon](/news/article-16117317/Anthropic-researcher-quits-AI-warning-kill-humans-2030.html), who said that AI is posing an existential threat to humanity as he stepped away from his role with AI firm Anthropic.\n\nCoxon announced his departure in a social media post on Tuesday and warned that companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are not 'acting responsibly.'\n\n'I resigned from Anthropic today,' he wrote on X. 'I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both [OpenAI](/sciencetech/openai/index.html) and Anthropic. \n\n'Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.'\n\nCoxon announced he quit the business through social media on Tuesday and warned that neither company is 'acting responsibly'\n\nSuperintelligence is the point at which an artificial system becomes more powerful than any individual, company or even nation.\n\nCoxon continued to plead with the public on X. 'Do not underestimate the power of this technology,' he wrote.\n\n'These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.\n\n'We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.\n\n'The people building [AI](/sciencetech/ai/index.html) earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.'\n\nHe claimed that while executives and senior researchers 'couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible,' they are privately expressing similar concerns.\n\nGeoffrey Hinton, a Canadian researcher often referred to as the 'Godfather of AI' – has similarly warned that [super-intelligent systems could 'lead to human extinction](/sciencetech/article-16111563/Godfather-AI-superintelligent-systems-human-extinction.html).'\n\n'We would be very foolish to develop superintelligence now, when there is no scientific consensus it can be developed safely and controllably,' Dr Hinton said.\n\n'Losing control over AI smarter than ourselves could be catastrophic and could even lead to human extinction.'", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-reveals-two-ways-ai-can-go-very-badly-as-he-addresses-concerns-from", "canonical_source": "https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16129127/Sam-Altman-AI-bad-progress.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490", "published_at": "2026-09-14 06:18:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 06:33:56.089216+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Anthropic", "Claude", "Jacob Coxon", "X"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-reveals-two-ways-ai-can-go-very-badly-as-he-addresses-concerns-from", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-reveals-two-ways-ai-can-go-very-badly-as-he-addresses-concerns-from.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-reveals-two-ways-ai-can-go-very-badly-as-he-addresses-concerns-from.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-reveals-two-ways-ai-can-go-very-badly-as-he-addresses-concerns-from.jsonld"}}