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

Barry Diller warns that as artificial general intelligence (AGI) approaches, organizational trust in AI leaders becomes irrelevant—the real risk lies in unforeseen consequences that even AI creators cannot predict or control. IT leaders must recognize that AGI development represents a fundamental shift beyond traditional governance models, requiring proactive establishment of technical and organizational guardrails before autonomous AI systems determine their own operational parameters. This shift demands IT organizations pivot from vendor trust assessment to building resilience frameworks and control mechanisms for systems whose behavior may surprise their creators.