Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of Openai, recently said that new AI technology will have a net positive impact on young children and potential future children.
Announced the birth of his first child on February 22, Altman said that his children will grow up to be more capable, but less intelligent, due to tools like ChatGpt.
“My kids never get smarter than AI,” Altman said in the first episode of the Openai Podcast, released Wednesday. “They are much more capable than we grew up, they can do things we can't imagine, and they're good at using AI.”
Altman said that AI is thinking more about what it offers the next generation than what it takes.
“I don't think my kids will be bothered by the fact that they aren't smarter than AI,” he added.
Shortly afterwards, Altman reiterated that advances in AI technology are likely to pose problems for future societies and social systems, including the growing number of people relying on these tools, but he believes that the benefits will ultimately outweigh the shortcomings.
“Again, I don't think this will all be better,” Altman told podcast host Andrew Maine. “There are problems, people develop these somewhat problematic, or perhaps very problematic things.
Altman, who described himself as “very child pild” in the episode (meaning that “everyone believes there are supposed to have a lot of kids”), said ChatGpt plays a big role in his parenting style. He said he was asking the AI chatbots about how to provide basic care in the first few weeks of his son's life.
“Obviously, people were able to take care of their babies without chatgupt for a long time,” Altman said. “I don't know how I did that.”
However, later in the episode, Altman acknowledges that ChatGpt is known to provide “hapticism,” that is, misinformation, and despite this, many users have a surprising amount of trust in the chatbot.
“People have a very high level of trust in ChatGpt, which is interesting because AI hallucinates,” says Altman. “It should be a technology you don't trust that much.”
