Sam Altman - "AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning."
In June 2015, during a public panel discussion, while president of Y Combinator, the discussion turned to a classic Silicon Valley debate: how to balance backing highly lucrative, fast-growing tech companies against the unpredictable, catastrophic risks those very technologies might introduce to the world. Sam Altman remarked that AI would "probably most likely lead to the end of the world".
