Tech Leaders Back Slowing AI Development Amid Data Center Concerns
Over 1,000 tech staffers, including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, are backing calls to slow AI development, with Altman acknowledging public concerns about AI data centers. Negative reactions in the US to data centers are threatening the AI boom.
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Sam Altman says he gets why people don't want AI data centers in their backyard
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sam Altman said on a podcast that he understands the backlash to AI data centers. The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said data centers should be built away from communities. "We should just go put it off in the desert, around no one where no one wants to be," he said. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, says he gets why communities don't want AI data centers nearby — and suggested they may be better suited for the desert. "I understand...
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In a first, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has called for pacing AI development so society has time to prepare. The remarks come close on the heels of OpenAI's AI agent going rogue and hacking Hugging Face.
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