OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he had "deep misgivings" about friendships with AI.
  • "We named it ChatGPT and not a person's name very intentionally," he said during WSJ's Tech Live event on Tuesday.
  • Altman's comments come amid a growing number of chatbots trying to make chatbots more human-like and friendly.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has misgivings about friendships between humans and AI.

"I personally really have deep misgivings about this vision of the future where everyone is super close to AI friends, and not more so with their human friends," Altman told the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern during the Tech Live event in Laguna Beach, California on Tuesday.