2026-10-06 · Fair Game by Vanity Fair · 06:03
“We have to navigate this like pragmatic middle path down down the center of this”He supports a pragmatic middle path between not releasing AI at all and releasing it unsafely.
Sam Altman on ai regulation
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2026-10-06 · Fair Game by Vanity Fair · 07:18
“I think it's a good start. I think it's like much better than nothing. Um, I remain of the belief that we are going to need more over time.”He believes the Trump accord on superintelligence is a good start but more will be needed over time.
2026-10-06 · Fair Game by Vanity Fair · 14:34
“So my stance on regulation is pro- innovation, let some things go normally wrong and trust that we have a normal process for doing this. But where this technology is extraordinarily powerful and fundamentally new, have guardrails”He advocates a pro-innovation regulatory stance with guardrails for extraordinarily powerful technology.
2026-10-05 · POLITICO · 10:03
“we don't want any restrictions or testing on anything but the frontier models. We do not want to slow down people that make very powerful but not the absolute frontier”He supports regulation focused only on frontier models, not models one or two generations behind.
2026-10-05 · POLITICO · 06:32
“we probably will see more calls for sort of some guard rails. But if I'm wrong about that and if nothing goes wrong along the way and, you know, we don't need anything there, then that's fine, too.”He expects more calls for guardrails as AI capability increases, but is fine if none prove necessary.
2026-09-29 · CNBC Television · 02:06
“Depending on whether the fault is in the model and how it's used or someone misusing it intentionally, I assume we'll have like a, you know, a new liability framework.”He expects a new multi-level liability framework for AI to emerge.
2026-09-29 · Bloomberg Television · 08:25
“I think one thing that would be good would be shared standards for safety cases about when you know, what you need at each level to proceed, without undue risk”He believes shared safety standards and verification methods across labs would be valuable.
2026-09-29 · Bloomberg Television · 05:21
“We are going to do this responsibly. We want the world to have that confidence.”He believes OpenAI will be responsible about AI safety without waiting on others.
2026-09-25 · The Independent · 06:52
“If AI is to be democratic, the most important decisions cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone. They must be shaped through democratic processes and by governments accountable to the people that they serve.”He argues the most important AI decisions must be shaped through democratic processes and governments, not by labs alone.
2026-09-25 · The Independent · 07:22
“We need a mechanism for complementary national and international frontier AI standards. Standards for measuring capabilities, assessing risks, determining whether safeguards are sufficient, and preserving meaningful human oversight as systems become more autonomous.”He calls for complementary national and international frontier AI standards.
2026-09-23 · USA TODAY · 29:30
“We have unilaterally slowed down in the past. We will do so in the future.”He says OpenAI has slowed down unilaterally in the past and will do so again.
2026-09-23 · USA TODAY · 30:00
“we should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we'll be able to keep under human control.”He argues models should not be trained unless there is an extremely strong case they can be kept under human control.
2026-09-23 · USA TODAY · 33:16
“If AI is to be democratic, the most important decisions cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone.”He believes the most important AI decisions must be shaped through democratic processes and governments, not by labs alone.
2026-09-16 · Salesforce · 25:59
“I think probably regrettably accidents with any new technology are unavoidable and we should have a great culture of transparent reporting about them.”He believes AI accidents are unavoidable and the industry should adopt transparent accident reporting.
2026-04-22 · Core Memory Podcast · 1:09:32
“I see no future no good future where leading AI efforts don't assist the US government.”He expects leading AI efforts will need to assist the US government as models grow more capable.
2026-02-20 · VERTEX · 45:32
“I think it's probably a good idea for governments to focus on regulating the really potentially catastrophic issues and being more lenient on the less important issues until we understand them better.”He recommends governments focus regulation on potentially catastrophic issues and be lenient on less important ones.
2025-11-17 · Tucker Carlson Network · 07:29
“I don't think it's in society's interest for ChatGPT to help people build bioweapons”He believes society's interest can justify limiting what ChatGPT will help users with, such as building bioweapons.
2025-11-17 · Tucker Carlson Network · 06:25
“a principle that I normally like is to treat our adult users like adults. Very strong guarantees on privacy, very strong guarantees on individual user freedom”He favors treating adult users like adults with strong privacy and freedom guarantees within broad limits.
2025-11-17 · Tucker Carlson Network · 16:50
“The reason we try to write this all out is I think people do need to know.”He believes the model spec should become increasingly detailed and transparent so people know how the model is intended to behave.
2025-10-31 · Bg2 Pod · 25:25
“I'm very worried about a 50-state patchwork. I think it's a big mistake. I think it's there's a reason we don't usually do that for these sorts of things. I think it'd be bad.”He is very worried about a fifty-state patchwork of AI regulation and thinks it would be a big mistake.
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