OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman admits AI might be moving too fast as the three-year-old technology keeps rapidly evolving — "You could imagine getting it wrong"

Generative AI has evolved beyond simple chatbots that can generate generic images and texts based on prompts to sophisticated productivity tools that can deliver real impact in society across medicine, education, computing, and more. However, these come at an incredible expense, especially considering the technology's negative implications on the environment, with an exorbitant demand for cooling and electricity.

The multi-billion-dollar industry is growing by the minute, and it's still difficult to discount the implications it may pose to humanity in the long term. In June, I reported on ChatGPT's master plan to end humanity, and as it seems, we might have already reached 'phase one', where users have seemingly developed an unhealthy dependence on AI tools.

Over the past few months, there has been an increase in the number of suicides related to an overdependency and reliance on AI-powered tools like ChatGPT. OpenAI was placed under fire when GPT-5 launched because it seemingly degraded ChatGPT's user experience. However, CEO Sam Altman indicated that the complaints stemmed from users who'd never had anyone care for them like ChatGPT when it was running on GPT-4o technology.

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During a recent interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the executive highlighted a long list of things that haven't been so great about ChatGPT's broad adoption and rise, including the speed at which it has reshaped the world (via Fortune).

ChatGPT has the potential to develop cures for medical complexities like cancer, but in the same breath, it could also be misused by bad actors to cause havoc that society may not be able to handle.

“Making sure that we introduce this to the world in a responsible way, where people have time to adapt, to give input, to figure out how to do this — you could imagine us getting that wrong,” added Altman.

This news comes amid multiple reports suggesting that people are becoming overly dependent and reliant on AI-powered chatbots like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, which, in turn, is atrophying their cognitive capabilities and making them dumber. As it happens, ChatGPT is now the world's most downloaded app with approximately 1.36 billion installs since its launch in November 2022.

Are you actively using ChatGPT, or any other AI chatbot for that matter — maybe Copilot?

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