🔴 Let's all get hacked for the sake of OpenAI! This is Sam Altman's perverse message.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said in an interview with Politico that to benefit from artificial intelligence, the world will also have to accept its negative effects. Dario Amodei, CEO of OpenAI's competitor, Anthropic, advocated a more cautious approach.

On October 5, 2026, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated in an interview with Politico that society will have to accept some negative effects of AI development in order to benefit from the technology. He argued that it is impossible to make AI widely available while also guaranteeing the complete absence of hacking, fraud, and other abuse. However, the benefits of AI, Altman believes, significantly outweigh the potential harm.