Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended Sam Altman's integrity while speaking at the Wall Street Journal's conference, but argued that trust in AI leaders is ultimately less important than addressing the unpredictable consequences of AGI development. Diller said that AI researchers themselves don't fully understand what their creations will do, making the technology fundamentally unknowable despite the good intentions of those developing it. He emphasized that AI will transform nearly everything and that robust guardrails are needed to manage these unknown risks.