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Sam Altman OpenAI · CEO
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Altman argues that local AI inference wastes the world's scarce DRAM, since memory in personal computers sits idle most of the time compared with cloud data centers.

A lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now because we are going to have open-source models. We’re going to be able to run them on our computers. And so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time.

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Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that it is quite terrible for individuals to hold a large share of the world's limited DRAM supply in their personal computers.

It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer.
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Altman clarified on X that he wants people to have as much memory as they like in their computers, saying his earlier podcast remarks on the memory shortage were taken out of context.

I actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers
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Altman says people must always remain in control of the future and OpenAI rejects relegating humans to roles that AI systems decide to reward.

People should always be in control of the future. OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that ‘AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans.’
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Altman argues the public should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that this should ultimately constrain AI progress.

should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress
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Altman told staff that if AI visibly goes badly wrong this year, biology is a plausible area for it to happen.

“If something goes visibly really wrong for AI this year, I think bio would be a reasonable bet.”