Barry Diller believes in Sam Altman. But ‘reliance is useless’ as AGI approaches, he says.

Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller doesn’t think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is untrustworthy, either recently reported differently. On stage at The Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything” conference this week, Diller vindicated the AI ​​chief, who has been accused by former colleagues and board members of being a fraud and a fraud at times.

Diller, who is close to Altman, was responding to a question about whether people should put their faith in Altman to prove that artificial intelligence will benefit humanity.

In particular, he was asked about a theoretical form of AI known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, which could one day surpass humans in any task.

The media executive, co-founder of Fox Broadcasting and chairman of IAC and Expedia Group, said that while he believed Altman was honest about his results, it was not an area the public should focus on. Instead, it is an unknown outcome that will come from AI.

“One of the biggest problems with AI is that it gets over dependent,” Diller said. “It may be that trust is useless because the things that are happening are amazing to the people who are creating the things. And I have spent a lot of time with different people who have been in the AI ​​universe, and they have amazing ideas. So … it is very unknown. We don’t know. They don’t know,” he explained.

“We have started something that will change almost everything. It is not a small information. Now, whether these large funds will pass – I can not care. I have not used the money, but progress will be made,” said Diller.

However, the press officer said he believes most of the people leading the project are good officials, saying he believes Altman is honest and “a man of good morals.” (Diller won’t say which AI leaders he thinks are dishonest, we should note.)

“But the issue is not their leadership. The issue is … dealing honestly with the unknown. They don’t know what will happen when you get AGI, and we’re close. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer, faster and faster. And we have to think about security,” said Diller.

Moreover, he warned, if people do not think about guardrails, then the alternative is that “another power, the power of AGI, will do it by itself. And when this happens, once you release it, there is no going back,” said Diller.