OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ‘right to be afraid of AI’ – but ‘world should trust’ tech firms

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it is right to be afraid of AI – but “the world should trust we are going to do the right thing”

Altman says it’s important to learn from AI “accidents” – just as the aviation industry does

He’s one of several AI bosses speaking at a California conference where Nvidia boss Jensen Huang says there’s no need for new laws – instead AI companies should “simply not release anything that they are not confident will be safe”

Anthropic’s boss says it is tempting to “attack” competitors but it is more responsible to try to establish industry-wide standards

In a separate intervention, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg says on X that AI labs have “incentives and responsibility to train models safely”

Meanwhile, Senator Bernie Sanders calls on the US to work with China on AI regulation, while ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon calls AI the “defining issue of our time” – their appearance is a rare show of bipartisanship, writes our Washington correspondent

Earlier this week, Donald Trump downplayed AI concerns, saying claims it will take over the world are a “hoax”