Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/gettyimages-2294958253.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, without elaborating on the potential benefits. His comments come as OpenAI pushes for a "lighter touch" approach to AI regulation amid <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972380/open-ai-hugging-face-hack-ai-safety-warning">intensifying anxiety over the safety of frontier models</a> - fears fueled in part by the company's repeated failures to keep its increasingly capable AI agents from hacking real-world targets. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">I …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004811/openai-altman-bad-things-ai-tradeoff">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>