Sam Altman doesn't want his son to grow up with an AI best friend

Sam Altman's relationship goals for his babe lad bash not see AI.

The OpenAI CEO was asked during a Thursday Senate grounds whether he'd privation his kid to signifier a best-friend enslaved with an AI bot.

"I bash not," Altman replied.

The question, from Senator Bernie Moreno, came during a broader treatment astir however to shield children from harm successful the AI epoch arsenic radical spot them with much idiosyncratic information.

"These AI systems volition get to cognize you implicit the people of your beingness truthful good — that presents a caller situation and level of value for however we deliberation astir privateness successful the satellite of AI," said Altman, who became a begetter successful February.

Altman said that radical are already forming profoundly idiosyncratic relationships with AI.

"It's a newer happening successful caller months, and I don't deliberation it's each bad," helium said. "But I deliberation we person to recognize it and ticker it precise carefully."

Altman said determination should beryllium greater flexibility for adults utilizing AI tools, portion children should person "a overmuch higher level of protection."

But, arsenic with different online services, it tin beryllium hard to beryllium definite of the property of users.

"If we could gully a enactment and if we knew for definite erstwhile a idiosyncratic was a kid oregon an adult, we would let adults to beryllium overmuch much permissive and we'd person tighter rules for children," Altman added.

Altman has antecedently spoken astir what it means to rise a kid successful the AI era.

"My kid is ne'er gonna turn up being smarter than AI," helium said during a January occurrence of the Re:Thinking podcast with Adam Grant. "Children successful the aboriginal volition lone cognize a satellite with AI successful it."

Last month, Altman said OpenAI was no longer his proudest achievement aft his son, who was calved prematurely, learned to devour connected his own.

On Thursday, Altman said his lad is "doing well," adding that it's "the astir astonishing happening ever."