3 posts tagged ‘ai safety’
Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024
TechCrunch,
For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But in 2024, those warning calls were drowned out by a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI promoted by the tech industry — a vision that also benefited their wallets. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Former OpenAI CEO: My Job Here Is Done
Gizmodo,
For 55 hours and 32 minutes, Emmett Shear steered the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, through its largest crisis ever. That chapter of Shear’s life and OpenAI’s history has now come to a close. It seems that no one listened to the former Twitch CEO’s concerns about AI safety, and returning CEO… Read more...
Elon Musk Shares Mysterious Letter About Sam Altman
Elon Musk tweeted a link to a strange letter Tuesday, supposedly written by former OpenAI employees detailing “a disturbing pattern of deceit and manipulation by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.” Altman and Brockman, OpenAI’s CEO and president, were fired and then rehired in a dramatic failed coup that played out over… Read more...