Sam Altman told Axios in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract.

- It's on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression.

- Altman warns: widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control

- "soon-to-be-released AI models could enable a world-shaking cyberattack this year. "I think that's totally possible," Altman said. "I suspect in the next year, we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber."

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