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5 October 2026

Altman says AI risks are worth accepting for broader access

First reported

Politico ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.

  • Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told Politico that while AI security risks matter, people must accept that harms will occur if AI benefits are to reach everyone widely.
  • Altman disagrees with Dario Amodei of Anthropic, who has called for tighter restrictions and slower development of advanced AI models, saying such gatekeeping is unacceptable.
  • Altman supports targeting regulation at specific catastrophic risks rather than broad restrictions, and backs industry cooperation on slowing frontier model development but opposes excessive brakes on AI.

Reported by SiliconANGLE, Politico