PREVIEW: CHATGPT PERIL: Author Keach Hagey, "The Optimists," re entrepreneur Sam Altman, comments on what Altman believes of the Geoff Hinton warning that AI can be dangerous to civilization. More to come.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor, conversation with the author and journalist Keith Hagey. |
| 0:06.6 | Her new book, The Optimist. This is the story of Sam Maltman, the man who heads up chat |
| 0:11.3 | CBT, an artificial intelligence lab now being monetized in some fashion. |
| 0:19.2 | I asked Keats at some point the warnings coming from, among others, |
| 0:25.0 | Jeff Hinton of the University of Toronto, |
| 0:27.8 | that AI can be and will be and may be many possibilities, |
| 0:34.1 | dangerous to mankind. |
| 0:36.8 | And I asked if Sam is concerned about that, because he's certainly well informed about |
| 0:42.0 | Jeff Hinton. |
| 0:43.7 | And here's Keach's very careful reply. |
| 0:47.3 | Accurate, too, as far as I can tell at this moment. |
| 0:50.8 | Is AI dangerous? |
| 0:53.0 | People who understand it say yes. |
| 0:56.1 | Sam Altman? |
| 0:58.4 | Teach gives us the explanation. |
| 1:01.1 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:02.9 | Well, it depends on when you ask him. |
| 1:04.9 | So early on, Sam brought forward those same warnings. |
| 1:09.2 | After ChatGPT launched and became viral, |
| 1:12.6 | Sam was the one going around saying, |
| 1:14.5 | you know, this is wonderful, |
| 1:15.7 | but if it goes wrong, it could go very wrong. |
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