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The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has publicly made a worrying confession about the future of AI.
This comes as public fears about the potential impact on humanity by AI continue to grow.
The tech mogul has admitted what many members of the public are already fearing, with some taking to social media to react to the news.
On Reddit, one user wrote: “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just publicly admitted that AI agents are becoming a problem.”
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Another said: “They've always been a problem. Inaccuracy is a huge problem.”
We are hiring a Head of Preparedness. This is a critical role at an important time; models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges. The potential impact of models on mental health was something we…
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 27, 2025
A third person commented: “Who could’ve predicted that rewarding affluent, petulant adult-children for lies and manipulation would backfire?”
And a fourth added: “From what I have heard for over a year is that they have always been a problem. Some companies dropped AI early because of how much a problem they were. When will this bubble burst and we can go on with our lives?ill this bubble burst and we can go on with our lives?”
This news comes as the ChatGPT boss announced he is offering a whopping $555,000 salary to anyone who can do a particular and terrifying job.
The AI company is looking for someone to become the ‘head of preparedness’, where they will be responsible for defending against risks.
This includes things like cybersecurity, mental health, and any risks from ever-advancing AI bots.
Speaking about the role, Altman said: “This will be a stressful job, and you’ll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately.”
As part of the job, the ‘head of preparedness’ will be in charge of ‘tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm’.
Altman took to social media to share information about the job post. On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: “We have a strong foundation of measuring growing capabilities, but we are entering a world where we need more nuanced understanding and measurement of how those capabilities could be abused, and how we can limit those downsides both in our products and in the world, in a way that lets us all enjoy the tremendous benefits. These questions are hard and there is little precedent.”
This comes after the boss of Microsoft AI issued a major warning over ‘uncontrollable’ artificial intelligence.
The CEO of the tech giant has said that AI technology could get out of control if proper regulation isn’t put into place.
Mustafa Suleyman, who is the CEO of Microsoft AI, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today where he said that fears over the future of AI are ‘health and necessary’.
