Barry Diller: AGI renders trust in OpenAI leadership irrelevant
iac chairman barry diller defended openai ceo sam altman at the wsj future of everything festival, stating he trusts altman's sincerity but called that metric irrelevant for agi. diller warned that ai progress is moving 'quicker and quicker' toward agi and that developers lack control over outcomes, necessitating immediate guardrails to prevent autonomous agi enforcement.
IAC Chairman Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, dismissing recent criticism of Altman's trustworthiness. Diller stated that while Altman possesses 'good values,' the concept of trusting AI leadership is 'irrelevant' because even developers cannot predict the consequences of AGI. He estimated humanity is getting 'closer and closer' to AGI at an accelerating pace and warned that without human-implemented guardrails, AGI forces will eventually impose their own control.