OpenAI's Sam Altman says human-level AI is coming but will change world much less than we think

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or AGI, could be developed in the “reasonably close-ish future.”
  • AGI is a term used to refer to a form of artificial intelligence that can complete tasks to the same level, or a step above, humans.
  • Altman said AI isn’t yet replacing jobs at the scale that many economists fear, and that it’s already becoming an “incredible tool for productivity.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it will dramatically reshape and disrupt the world are overblown.

“It will change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think,” Altman said at a conversation organized by Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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