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." Mike Allen (@mikeallen) 🚨🚨@sama tells me he feels such URGENCY about the power of coming AI models that @OpenAI is unveiling a New Deal for superintelligence – ideas to wake up DC He says AI will soon be so mindbending that we need a new social contract 👇Altman's top 6 ideas axios.com/2026/04/06/behind-… — https://nitter.net/mikeallen/status/2041099089031356468#m

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