OpenAI chief seeks to calm fears on job losses

Altman, a 38-year-old emerging star of Silicon Valley, has received rapturous welcomes from leaders everywhere from Lagos to London. — AFP

PARIS: The boss of OpenAI, the firm behind the massively popular ChatGPT bot, said that his firm's technology would not destroy the job market as he sought to calm fears about the march of artificial intelligence (AI).

Sam Altman, on a global tour to charm national leaders and powerbrokers, said in Paris that AI would not – as some have warned – wipe out whole sectors of the workforce through automation.