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Comment author: Houshalter 14 July 2015 12:59:38PM *  1 point [-]

More recent is his AMA. He answered a question about AI: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altman_reddit_board_member_and_president/csz46jc

How do you think we can best prepare ourselves for the advance of AI in the future? Have you and Elon Musk discussed this topic, by chance?

Elon and I have discussed this many, many times. It's one of the things I think about most.

Have some news coming here in a few months...

He also wrote some stuff about AI on his blog (which turned out to be very controversial among readers.) I believe this is the source of your article:

http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 14 July 2015 02:44:07PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, that quote was mentioned below and put me on a search for statements by Altman to this end.