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Sam Altman pledges more openness as OpenAI works toward AGI
- Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has set out his plans for ensuring everyone on the planet has access to artificial general intelligence (AGI) to nurture creative resources. Part of the plan is to give everyone a “compute budget”, an investment in something like cryptocurrency that will rise in value, to distribute the benefits of AGI across the globe. Altman believes such systems will need millions of hyperscale AI structures that can tackle every field of knowledge work but warns the costs are huge, even though the cost of using them falls around 10 times with each 12-month period.
- OpenAI is already in talks to raise $40bn after it received $6.6bn. Altman said OpenAI plans to change its mission from the original aims of being non-profit to a for-profit company that hopes to achieve $100bn in annual revenues by 2029.
- As OpenAI moves rapidly towards AGI-level systems, Altman said difficult decisions will have to be made on safety, which will include some unpopular limitations. This will have to include more openness about OpenAI’s AI systems despite the group being described as historically being “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open-source sharing.
- Wider use of AGI-based systems could benefit society and boost the economy, but there are concerns that their introduction could also cause mass unemployment. Such systems require not only deployment at scale, but also heavy investment to ensure safety and development.
- The historical progress of technological advancement has proven that most health and economic metrics get better in the long-term, but there is no proof that equality will be included in this progress, Altman pointed out. Capital could quickly become more powerful than labour, he warned.
- AGI is defined by Altman as being 'a system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields.' He indicated that we are very close to achieving it, but also stressed the role of human supervision and guidance to avoid any possible disruption.
- Once AGI systems are launched at an enormous scale, the value will be realised, according to Altman. Such systems will need heavy sums of investment, however, which is why OpenAI is reportedly talking to investors about raising another $40bn (three months after raising $6.6bn).
- OpenAI has partnered with firms like Oracle to provide $500bn on data centres through President Trump’s Project Stargate. Altman expects the systems used by large and powerful AI structures to be great at certain things, but bad at others. As such, AI should be used to help individual members of society attain greater power rather than cradle authoritarian control.
- Altman said that adopting an approach focussed on helping individuals will almost certainly result in the firm having to be more open about its AI systems.
- Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, among others, supports the argument that developing and training powerful AI systems may become more affordable. However, Altman warns that heavy investment is necessary to achieve AGI.
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