10 October 2026

Sam Altman says society should accept some AI harms for benefits

First reported

The Guardian ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.

  • Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, publicly criticised the habit of attributing religious authority to AI models.
  • He called this kind of thinking a real safety issue, meaning it could lead people to trust AI in ways that are risky.

How it was covered