Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, believes that society should accept some negative consequences from AI in exchange for the technology's broader benefits and widespread public access.[8034792][8030139] Altman stated that 'the world should accept some bad things happening' as a trade-off for the benefits of AI.[8034792][8030139] The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and 'other bad things' as costs society should expect to tolerate because 'people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff' with AI.[8034792] Altman's comments come as OpenAI pushes for a 'lighter touch' approach to AI regulation amid intensifying anxiety over the safety of frontier models.[8034792]