The CEO's roadmap to AGI
EssaySam Altman's strategic essay outlining OpenAI's vision for safely developing AGI, advocating for gradual deployment, iterative learning from real-world use, and the importance of a "tight feedback loop" between AI capabilities and society.
The core argument is that society needs time to adapt to increasingly powerful AI. Deploying incrementally (GPT-3 → ChatGPT → GPT-4 → ...) allows for iterative course correction.
Implicitly signals that OpenAI believes AGI is achievable in the near term, making safety work urgent.
Calls for some form of global governance over superintelligent AI systems, suggesting that no single entity (including OpenAI) should unilaterally control AGI.
AI should be a "tool that people command" rather than an autonomous agent.