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

# OpenAI's Leader Gets Vote of Confidence, But Big Questions Remain Barry Diller, a legendary media executive, publicly backed Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO, but cautioned that personal trust won't matter much if AI becomes powerful enough to make its own decisions. Diller's message: even if we like the people running AI companies today, we need stronger safeguards in place because advanced AI could eventually operate beyond anyone's control. The takeaway is that leadership character matters less than the systems we put in place to manage AI's future power.