At TED2025 (April 2025), Sam Altman publicly defended OpenAI's safety approach as an iterative process of deploying systems to the world while stakes are relatively low, getting feedback, and addressing issues as they arise.

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  “the way we learn how to build safe systems is this iterative process of deploying them to the world, getting feedback while the stakes are relatively low, learning about, like, hey, this is something we have to address.”