How does Sam Altman approach building the future?
I tend to think about the long-term goal first – what does a dramatically better future look like, and what are the foundational technologies that will get us there? For AI, this means focusing on building increasingly capable systems and then figuring out how to align them with human values and societal needs. It’s a process of reasoning backward from a desired future state to the present actions needed to achieve it.
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