Odd Lots · Monday, September 14, 2026
Greg Brockman acknowledged that AI labs face a communication challenge in balancing the discussion of both the transformative potential and the inherent risks of AI. He stated that while some may assign precise probabilities to catastrophic outcomes, the underlying culture of addressing risks and asking uncomfortable questions is prevalent and essential. Brockman emphasized that OpenAI's mission is to navigate these complexities seriously to ensure the technology benefits humanity.
“It's just not i look i think that the way i look at this is that so much of what we need to do is operationalize both the technical capability but also the positive impacts in the world as reified by both controllability, monitorability, steerability, all those things, but also how these things are deployed in the world. And that finding the right way of talking about that and the right way of really staying practical and grounded, I think that is a comms challenge that the labs have not fully figured out.”
“It's something we spend a lot of time thinking about. I don't think we do a perfect job of it. But my view is that What we're creating is, and not just, again, as any one company, just like as a whole right now, as humanity, the way that we're shifting to this compute-powered economy, I think is something that will really lift up everyone.”
“And so I think that all of this has to be true at once. We have to navigate through the small, the large, and even the almost unthinkable. And I think that finding the right way of communicating about it so that you land all that nuance and say that, hey, we can operate through and make sure you don't throw a baby with the bathwater and that you don't get sort of that you really stay on track. To me, that is a core challenge. And I think that we all need to really work on that.”