Home/Blog/Sam Altman slammed over AI "bad things" commentAI & MLSam Altman slammed over AI "bad things" commentHacker News New2026-11-05 17:280 viewsArticle URL: https://iol.co.za/technology/big-tech/2026-11-03-sam-altman-faces-fierce-backlash-after-saying-society-must-accept-bad-things-for-ai-progress/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377068 Points: 1 # Comments: 0Source:https://iol.co.za/technology/big-tech/2026-11-03-sam-altman-faces-fierce-backlash-after-saying-society-must-accept-bad-things-for-ai-progress/My favoritesPreviousShow HN: Anything to colors – To every dream, its colorsNextDiscord is getting GPUI rewriteRelated postsI Stopped Chasing Viral: Slow Growth for a Bilingual Story PlatformFor the first month, I checked my numbers the way you check a pot waiting to boil. Refresh. Refresh. Nothing. A handful 0dev.to WebDevHow to Vet an Android App Before Installing It — and What to Do If You Installed a Suspicious OneMost Android apps are harmless, useful tools. A small number are not. The difference is rarely obvious from an icon or a0dev.to SecurityHow to Automatically Blur Faces and License Plates in Photos for PrivacyAnonymize sensitive photos automatically. Detect and blur bystanders' faces and vehicle license plates before publishing0dev.to SecurityVocal to MIDI: How Pitch Tracking Turns a Sung Melody Into Notes, With a Python ExampleBy Tania Alwan "Vocal to MIDI" means estimating the pitch of a sung (or hummed) melody and writing it out as MIDI notes 0dev.to PythonHow We Solved Persistent Context Loss in Civic Issues with HindsightHow We Solved Persistent Context Loss in Civic Issues with Hindsight When building AI systems to manage civic issues lik0dev.to PythonAn AI agent is a loop. Here it is in 40 lines of plain Python"AI agent" sounds like something that needs a framework. It doesn't. Strip away the libraries and every agent is the sam0dev.to Python