President Trump invited OpenAI’s Sam Altman to the White House this week to make an announcement (Image: Getty) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is under fire for making a bold claim about the role artificial intelligence will play in shaping the future.
His comments come after President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. will make a historic $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure.
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Altman, who has a rocky relationship with DOGE’s Elon Musk , told AI For Good that advancing AI will likely require massive changes to society.
Of the future of AI, Altman said: "I still expect, although I don’t know what, and this is over a long period of time, not a next year or year after that kind of thing. But, over a long period of time, I still expect that it will be some change required to the social contract given how powerful we expect this technology to be."
He continued to caution that he does not expect AI to cause mass unemployment, though he argued differently in a 2021 essay. However, he still warned it will disrupt societal norms.
"I’m not a believer that they’re won’t be any good jobs. We always find new things to do, but I do think that the whole structure of society, itself, will be up for some degree of debate and reconfiguration," Altman added.
The interview clip went viral on social media and was subject to widespread condemnation.Social Work Professor Anthony Zenkus of Columbia University wrote on X in a viral post, "Billionaires thinking they get to decide what happens to ‘the social contract’ is exactly why we shouldn’t have billionaires. F— Sam Altman and F— […]
Panic after Sam Altman says AI will require ‘changes to social contract’ and society
