“Boycott OpenAI” by PeterMcCluskey

This is a link post.I have canceled my OpenAI subscription in protest over OpenAI's lack ofethics.

In particular, I object to:

• threats to confiscate departing employees' equity unless thoseemployees signed a life-long non-disparagement contract
• Sam Altman's pattern of lying about important topics

I'm trying to hold AI companies to higher standards than I use fortypical companies, due to the risk that AI companies will exert unusualpower.

A boycott of OpenAI subscriptions seems unlikely to gain enoughattention to meaningfully influence OpenAI. Where I hope to make adifference is by discouraging competent researchers from joining OpenAIunless they clearly reform (e.g. by firing Altman). A few goodresearchers choosing not to work at OpenAI could make the differencebetween OpenAI being the leader in AI 5 years from now versus being,say, a distant 3rd place.

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First published:
June 18th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXhBCDLJPEjadwHBM/boycott-openai

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