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b'David Remnick sits down with Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, GPT-4, and other artificial-intelligence programs. A.I. is a tool, Altman emphasizes, that streamlines human work and quickens the pace of scientific advancement. But he claims to empathize with concerns about the emerging technology. \\u201cEven if you don\\u2019t believe in any of the sci-fi stories,\\u201d he tells Remnick, \\u201cyou could still be freaked out about the level of change that this is going to bring society and the compressed time frame in which that\\u2019s going to happen.\\u201d\\xa0\\nDespite examples of GPT-4\\xa0declaring love\\xa0or\\xa0longing to escape to the real world, Altman avoids projecting sentience or goals onto it, and he describes it modestly: \\u201cWhat this system is is a system that takes in some text, does some complicated statistics on it, and puts out some more text.\\u201d And, though he acknowledges that the tool can be misused, he added, \\u201cI don\\u2019t believe we\\u2019re on a path to build a creature.\\u201d Altman, who testified before Congress last month, describes a recent meeting at the White House led by Vice-President Kamala Harris, and he passes the buck to the government to regulate A.I. technology to avoid monopolization and increased income inequality. The economic disruption and job losses that are certain to come could be managed through policies such as universal basic income, he feels, despite the fact that those policies are politically unpalatable.'