Sam Altman’s Greatest FearThe Alignment Problem and the Future of HumanityYesterday Sam Altman testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the first of a series of hearings on AI safety.Altman, CEO of the company that created ChatGPT, agreed with senators about the potential dangers of AI. He spoke of the need for regulation, the importance of privacy, and he even advocated creating a government agency to license AI companies.The academic, Gary Marcus, called Altman out and declared that “he never told us what his worst fear is, and I think it’s germain to find out.”Altman did answer...