{"id":96211,"date":"2025-07-24T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96211"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:03:34","slug":"sam-altmans-three-nightmare-ai-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/24\/sam-altmans-three-nightmare-ai-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman&#8217;s three nightmare AI scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneurondaily.com\/p\/the-us-ai-action-plan-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The US AI Action Plan, Explained<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from theneurondaily.com by Grant Harvey<br \/>\n<em>Sam&#8217;s 3 AI nightmares, Google hits 2B users, and Trump bans &#8220;woke&#8221; AI&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Meanwhile, at the Fed&#8217;s banking conference on Wednesday, Altman revealed his three nightmare AI scenarios. The first two were predictable: bad actors getting superintelligence first, and the classic &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t do that, Dave&#8221; situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But the third? AI accidentally steering us off course while we just&#8230;go along with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">His example hit home: young people who can&#8217;t make decisions without ChatGPT (according to Sam, this is literally a thing).\u00a0See, even when AI gives\u00a0great\u00a0advice, collectively handing over all decision-making feels \u201cbad and dangerous\u201d (even to Sam, who MADE this thing).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So yeah, Sam\u2019s not really worried about the AI rebelling. He\u2019s worried about AI becoming so good that we stop thinking for ourselves\u2014and that might be scarier.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also from The Neuron re: the environmental impacts of producing\/offering AI:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mistral.ai\/news\/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from mistral.ai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmansachs.com\/what-we-do\/investment-banking\/insights\/articles\/powering-the-ai-era\/report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Powering the AI Era<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from goldmansachs.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US AI Action Plan, Explained &#8212; from theneurondaily.com by Grant Harvey Sam&#8217;s 3 AI nightmares, Google hits 2B users, and Trump bans &#8220;woke&#8221; AI&#8230; Meanwhile, at the Fed&#8217;s banking conference on Wednesday, Altman revealed his three nightmare AI scenarios. The first two were predictable: bad actors getting superintelligence first, and the classic &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,210,287,95,419,482,101,480,454,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-emerging-technologies","category-europe","category-global","category-ideas-teaching","category-intelligent-systems","category-psychology","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96214,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96211\/revisions\/96214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}