On podcasts his attitude is basically “oh yeah all of you are basically fucked our products will take everyone’s jobs in a couple years.”
Altman is a lot more coy and comes across as saying what’s politically expedient at any given point in time.
I also appreciate his honesty, and don't really understand why the others don't emulate it because there's no cost to them to be honest. At every level of society we've decided to stick our heads in the sand and pretend like this very large tsunami isn't racing toward the coast, so as someone producing this technology you can be honest (and mostly ignored by people in denial), or be cagey and mistrusted (like Sam Altman).
“It’s so dangerous, we’ve reached AGI, we just have to release models that are obviously incapable of abstraction for your safety”
Funnily enough, the same thing can be used against those who criticize his view on AI. I wonder if there is a word for this.