What Salim Ismail has said about AI welfare and moral status
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on AI welfare and moral status once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail argues that human-like behavior in AI is expected because models are trained on human data.
“If you train a neural network on human data, it's going to act human. Of course it is”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 9:51
Episodes
OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 1 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Dave Blundin discuss OpenAI's bulk math solutions, Anthropic's AI cruelty ban, Meta's Muse Wonder, virtual cells, BCIs and Elon Musk's quadrillion-dollar SpaceX claim.
Others on AI welfare and moral status
- Dave Blundin · 2 quotes
- Alexander Wissner-Gross · 2 quotes
Salim Ismail on other topics
- AI alignment · 2 quotes
- SpaceX · 1 quote
- Brain-machine interfaces · 1 quote
- Cryptography · 1 quote
- Meta Muse Wonder · 1 quote
- Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold · 1 quote
- Bitcoin · 1 quote
- Project Meridian · 1 quote