“Anyone thinks they’re a reckless idiot” is far too easy a bar to reach for any public figure. I do not know of major anti-Altman currents in my country, but considering surveys consistently show a majority of people worried about AI risk, a normal distribution of extremeness of opinion on the subject ensures there’ll be many who do consider Sam Altman a reckless idiot (for good or bad reason—I expect a majority of them to consider Sam Altman to have any negative trait that comes to their attention because it is just that easy to have a narrow hateful opinion on a subject for a large portion of the population).
For the record. I do not mean to single out Altman. I am talking in general about leading figures (i.e. Altman et al.) in the AI space for which Altman have become a convenient proxy since he is a very public figure.
“Anyone thinks they’re a reckless idiot” is far too easy a bar to reach for any public figure.
I do not know of major anti-Altman currents in my country, but considering surveys consistently show a majority of people worried about AI risk, a normal distribution of extremeness of opinion on the subject ensures there’ll be many who do consider Sam Altman a reckless idiot (for good or bad reason—I expect a majority of them to consider Sam Altman to have any negative trait that comes to their attention because it is just that easy to have a narrow hateful opinion on a subject for a large portion of the population).
For the record. I do not mean to single out Altman. I am talking in general about leading figures (i.e. Altman et al.) in the AI space for which Altman have become a convenient proxy since he is a very public figure.