Altman Warns AI Needs Better Messaging | California News

0:00It's September 4th. From your city to your ears, this is California News Today, powered by AI. Sam Altman, the headhunch at Open AI, is out here saying the AI game ain't been communicating its wins effectively. He feels like the whole industry, including his own crew, has dropped the ball on showing folks how this tech can actually make their lives better. He's worried that if we don't get better at explaining the upside, people are going to keep getting spooked, and that ain't the move. He's stressing that this whole AI thing should be about giving people more control and freedom, not taking it away. Alman's point is that when people feel like the folks building this stuff don't have their best interest at heart, it's natural for them to get. Uneasy. Meanwhile, there's been a lot of chatter about how secure these advanced AI systems really are. Cybersecurity has become a major talking point, and rightfully so, given the power these tools wield. Now, Open AI just dropped a new version of their tech, code named GPT-6 Astra, for some

1:01business users in their daybraigh program. They're also planning to roll out a version for their paying Chad GPT customers, but with extra security features built in. Both these new models have limits to keep users from messing with the most advanced cybersecurity functions. Open AI's president, Greg Brockman, is even hinting that this new model could be the first step towards what they call artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which is basically AI that can do pretty much any task a human can. It's a big goal for the industry, though nobody's really sure what it looks like yet, and some folks are still on the fence about it.