SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 13 — OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has ruled out a stock market listing for the ChatGPT developer this year, citing the ongoing debate about the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence (AI), German Press Agency (dpa) reported.
In an interview with Fortune magazine, Altman said this would be an "ill-advised moment to go public.”
Asked whether he could also imagine forgoing a listing in the following year, Altman replied: "I would say not 2026.”
ChatGPT sparked the current AI boom several years ago. OpenAI's stock market listing, which has been in planning for some time, is expected to raise tens of billions of dollars and achieve a very high valuation.
Concerns about the risks of AI have been growing for weeks, sparked mainly by hacking attacks carried out by AI software that acted autonomously during test runs.
The debate was further fuelled in recent days when a researcher at AI firm Anthropic resigned with a stark warning that for-profit AI leaders were "gambling with our lives.”
Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger, who is partly responsible for ensuring AI remains aligned with human interests, shortly afterwards confirmed the concerns of the researcher, Jacob Coxon.
Hubinger wrote on the online platform X that he personally believed the risk of AI killing humanity within the next decade stood at more than 10 per cent.
In the United States, there is also a growing movement against the construction of the vast data centres that AI companies such as OpenAI depend on to expand their business.
