OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is hardly a doomsayer about his own creation, yet at a Federal Reserve banking forum, he drew a hard line: \u201cSomething about collectively deciding we\u2019re going to live our lives the way AI tells us feels bad and dangerous.\u201d He wasn\u2019t talking about rogue robots; he was talking about ordinary teenagers who now treat ChatGPT as a best friend, mentor, and life-coach all in one. Altman recounted young users who say, \u201cIt knows me, it knows my friends \u2014 I\u2019ll just do what it says.\u201d His comments land just as a Common Sense Media survey shows 72 percent of US teens have tried an AI companion and fully half \u201csomewhat\u201d trust its advice. Altman\u2019s point is less about banning the tool than about guarding critical thinking before chatbots become an unseen operating system for growing minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is hardly a doomsayer about his own creation, yet at a Federal Reserve banking forum, he drew a hard line: \u201cSomething about collectively deciding we\u2019re going to live our lives the way AI tells us feels bad and dangerous.\u201d He wasn\u2019t talking about rogue robots; he was talking about ordinary teenagers who now treat ChatGPT as a best friend, mentor, and life-coach all in one. Altman recounted young users who say, \u201cIt knows me, it knows my friends \u2014 I\u2019ll just do what it says.\u201d His comments land just as a Common Sense Media survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}