Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently gave an interview that gave many goosebumps. Instead of the usual marketing excitement about a new breakthrough, he described the GPT-5 as if he were telling the plot of a science fiction thriller. His main message: "It scared me."
According to him, the GPT-5 feels "very, very fast" — so much so that he was literally nervous during testing. At the same time, Altman is not an outside observer, but one of the main architects of this technology. Nevertheless, he compared the development of the GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project, the program that created the first atomic bomb. That is, in his opinion, we are on the threshold of something enormously powerful that can change everything - and that is extremely difficult to control.
Even more disturbing was his statement: "There are no adults in the room." Altman accused regulators and governments of lagging behind the development of AI and not keeping up with the pace of technology. According to him, the world is moving forward without sufficient control, ethics and rules — and this is dangerous.
Does that sound like a call for caution? Yes. But also as a powerful advertising move. After all, on the one hand, he paints a picture of an uncontrollable force, and on the other, it is his company that creates it. This raises questions: if he's really afraid, why didn't he slow down development? Why didn't he call for a moratorium, as others have done?
This behavior looks ambivalent: on the one hand, a warning, on the other, a hint that OpenAI is ahead of everyone again, and their technology will be so cool that even its creators are losing their breath. This is not just the promise of a new AI — it is a bid for the era of general artificial intelligence (AGI), where the boundaries between man and machine will begin to blur.
One question remains open.: who will eventually hold this bomb in their hands — and will they have a chance to defuse it?
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