OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI could pose economic shocks or disinformation problems "at a level far beyond anything we're prepared for."

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI and acting CEO, has also admitted that he was "a little scared" of ChatGPT, the company's chatbot, and how it could take the jobs of multiple people. Despite the fears of the tool potentially taking over jobs, he noted that it could replace them with "much better" ones.

In an interview with ABC News, Sam Altman gave a statement saying that he was "a little bit scared" of artificial intelligence's potential. He noted that the public shouldn't trust him if he said that he himself wasn't scared.

Altman: "I think if I said I were not, you should either not trust me, or be very unhappy I'm in this job... The reason to develop AI at all, in terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,"

Altman revealed that he was a regular contact with regulators and the government. He noted that government officials, regulators, and society should all be a part of the rollout of ChatGPT.

The OpenAI founder has been public about his support for regulation in artificial intelligence, calling it "critical" and saying that due to the magnitude of artificial intelligence, society would need time to adjust.

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