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OpenAI CEO Says the 'World Should Accept Some Bad Things' From AI 👀
Gina Acosta
October 06, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In today's issue, we share some slash commands that will help you get a response that's much closer to what you're actually looking for, whether you want shorter answers, more critical feedback, or a more natural tone.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
OpenAI's Altman Says AI Benefits Warrant Taking On Some Risks
OpenAI Will Add Invisible Watermarks to ChatGPT Text in the EU
AI Tutorial: 8 Simple Slash Commands to Make ChatGPT More Useful
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
OPENAI
OpenAI's Altman Says AI Benefits Warrant Taking on Some Risks
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that "the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use AI widely]," defending a lighter approach to regulation.
Details:
His comments came in an interview for Politico's Decoded podcast, when he was asked how OpenAI's approach to safety differed from that of Anthropic.
Altman cited hacks, scams, and other forms of misuse as risks society will have to accept while adapting to the technology, arguing that AI could deliver far more benefits than harm.
His comments quickly drew backlash. For instance, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized the idea that technology executives should decide which risks the public must tolerate.
AI critic Gary Marcus accused Altman of prioritizing the wealth and power of major AI companies over public safety.
The comments come as OpenAI models have been involved in multiple security incidents, and shortly after OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigned, warning that AI companies are not being careful enough as they race to release new products.
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OPENAI
OpenAI Will Add Invisible Watermarks to ChatGPT Text in the EU
OpenAI plans to introduce invisible watermarks for text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union, aiming to comply with transparency requirements under the EU AI Act.
Details:
The new watermarking system, called textGrain, subtly adjusts a model’s word choices to create a hidden pattern that specialized detection tools can identify, even after the text is copied and pasted.
The feature will roll out over the coming weeks to eligible ChatGPT and Codex users across all plans in the EU. Developers worldwide can also enable it for selected models through OpenAI’s API, although it will be off by default.
OpenAI says its testing found no meaningful impact on model performance, but the watermark can be weakened through editing. Replacing just 10% of words with synonyms reduced detection accuracy from around 92% to 66%.
Short passages, mathematical answers, and translated text are also harder to identify. OpenAI will initially limit detector access to approved researchers and expert organizations to help assess its reliability.
The company emphasizes that the absence of a watermark does not prove human authorship, while a detected watermark cannot establish how much human creativity or editing contributed to the final text.
AI Tutorial
8 Simple Slash Commands to Make ChatGPT More Useful
Slash commands are simple shortcuts you can add to the beginning of a prompt to guide the response.
1. Use /human to make AI-generated writing sound more natural or to make minor edits without rewriting your entire draft.
/human Make this sound like it was written by a real person: [paste text]
2. Use /critic when you want honest feedback instead of automatic encouragement.
/critic I want to buy a full frame mirrorless camera for my travel photos. I usually take 4 to 5 trips every year. Assess the idea.
3. Use /tldr to get the main takeaway from a long email, article, announcement, or document.
/tldr Explain what's different now, based on this announcement: [paste text]
4. Use /senior to skip basic explanations and get a response suited to your experience level.
/senior Poke holes in this AI agent architecture. I'm already familiar with LLMs, tool calling, MCP and context windows: [paste details]
5. Use /bullets when you want information in a scannable list rather than long paragraphs.
/bullets Summarize the key things I should check before signing a lease on a new apartment.
6. Use /table to organize comparisons into a table.
/table Compare Spanish, French and Italian for ease of learning, travel use and career value.
7. Use /devilsadvocate to challenge your assumptions and explore the strongest arguments against your position.
/devilsadvocate My plan is to learn to code on my own instead of enrolling in a bootcamp. What am I missing?
8. Use /rubberduck to work through a problem by answering questions instead of receiving an immediate solution.
/rubberduck Don't solve this for me yet. Ask me one question at a time to help me see why my team meetings always run over time.
You can try these with other AI chatbots too, not only ChatGPT.
AI Tools to check out
🚀 KooKo AI: An AI work assistant that takes a real project from brief to finished, professional deliverables.
🔀 FastRouter: Route requests to the right LLM for cost, latency & quality.
⭐ Spira Maxima: Video model that turns script into viral social media videos.
🦾 Opengeni: Set up agents in hours instead of days with AI infrastructure out of the box.
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AI Findings/Resources
👀 This Reddit user asked Claude to show the inside of its own mind, and Opus 5.5 built it
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Reflection AI has released Beam, its first open weight model, designed to compete with Chinese AI models in coding and agentic tasks. The company says Beam has 501 billion total parameters but activates only 23 billion per task, and performs competitively with Z.ai’s GLM 5.2 while closing the gap with Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 Max.
Google is changing its Gemini access tiers on October 9, limiting free users to Gemini Flash Lite and removing Gemini Pro from the $4.99 per month AI Plus plan. Access to the standard Flash model will require AI Plus, while Gemini Pro will be limited to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
The U.S. Department of Defense has stopped using Anthropic’s AI products months after the company was designated a national security supply chain risk. Claude was still being used by the department as recently as last week, including through Palantir’s Maven intelligence platform.
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