1. The more Sam's finances don't add up, the hype he generates gets bigger. 2. But he's right that a massive cyberattack is likely imminent. (See my January 2025 @politico essay for why.) Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus)
Holy moly: Sam Altman told Axios in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract. – It's on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression. – Altman warns: widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control – "Soon-to-be-released AI models could enable a world-shaking cyberattack this year. I think that's totally possible," Altman said. "I suspect in the next year, we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber." [Translated from EN to English]

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