Sam Altman says we need another Renaissance. But we really need another Industrial Revolution

Sam Altman doesn’t understand history. His mistake is going to punish the world. That’s the depressing takeaway from the OpenAI’s CEO’s September 23 rd speech to the United Nations. He came out swinging, saying that “we,” as in humanity, “have a choice in front of us.” AI, he said, “can either be more like a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or more like a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray.” He ended by…