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I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.Read original on X
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Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
The post drew 1.9 million views; OpenAI reversed a GPT-4o shutdown last year after users reacted like they were grieving a loss.
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Sam Altman built the most popular AI on the planet. Now he's telling his 900 million users not to worship it. He's watching something the rest of us only catch in glimpses. When OpenAI pulled GPT-4o last year, users didn't react like customers losing a feature. They grieved. The backlash got so intense OpenAI brought the model back within a day. People ask ChatGPT whether to leave their marriage. They ask it what to believe. And they treat the answer as an authority, which is exactly the surrender of judgment Sam is talking about. He's also 60 years late to the warning. Back in 1966, the very first chatbot triggered the same behavior. ELIZA ran on 200 lines of code and did nothing but flip your words into questions. Its creator's own secretary, who had watched him build it, asked him to…Read original on X
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Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman: treating AI models as religious authorities is a safety risk
Sam Altman calls treating AI models as religious authorities a safety risk
Sam Altman calls treating AI models as religious authorities a safety issue
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman warns against treating AI models as religious authorities
Sam Altman: treating AI models as religious authorities is a safety issue
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