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Start free trial →Cheeky Pint · Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS · October 2026
Altman explains why he has become excited about swarms of AI agents. His argument is that society's robustness comes from many actors keeping each other in check, and a single all-powerful model would lose that.
…society, it is unbelievably robust. And this would not happen without a lot of people keeping each other in check and collaborating and kind of these values of pluralism and democracy. And I had been sort of sad that that was going to trend away in AI. And now I'm excited about this as a direction.
You're saying basically it shouldn't lead in a centralized direction because you will have many agents and agents pushing against each other in a dynamic equilibrium. And offense, defense is a good example of this.
I would much rather intuitively have a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of one trillion IQ join society.
Yeah. And you think we're headed in that direction of the multiple.
All of these things are things we have to push for. Like all of these things are like we have this incredible technology. It can be pointed and deployed in many ways. I think there are a lot of people who may have a different opinion about how it should be used and what is the best version of the…
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