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Altman: people should not cede control of the future to superintelligence

Sam Altman @samaX

Why it matters

OpenAI’s CEO says a human-control requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress (5.7M views in a day).

Summary

Altman writes that OpenAI rejects people being “relegated to a role of doing things that ‘AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans’” and that keeping control “should ultimately constrain AI progress”.

Archived text

People should always be in control of the future.

OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that “AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans”.

People should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress.

Source: x.com/sama/status/2117794005165748448Archived 2026-11-05 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 9,886,884 views, 19,708 likes, 970 reposts, 5,115 replies (at fetch time)

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    Sam Altman: people must not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that should constrain AI progress