Sam Altman

Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear has been tapped by the board instead, ending a weekend-long saga in which loyalists to Altman had pushed for a shock return.

ChatGPT founder Sam Altman is full of hope (and fear) about the future of artificial intelligence. Finishing off a five-week world tour at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre he spoke to audiences about the importance of incentives, harnessing the power of capitalism, and the potential of AI to destroy the world.

Senators and industry leaders went back-and-forth about what artificial intelligence governance and dangers may look like—questioning whether the technology is more like the “printing press” or the “atom bomb.”.