“What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?” by ozziegoen

This is a quickly-written opinion piece, of what I understand about OpenAI. I first posted it to Facebook, where it had some discussion. 

 

 Some arguments that OpenAI is making, simultaneously:

1.  OpenAI will likely reach and own transformative AI (useful for attracting talent to work there).
2.  OpenAI cares a lot about safety (good for public PR and government regulations).
3.  OpenAI isn’t making anything dangerous and is unlikely to do so in the future (good for public PR and government regulations).
4.  OpenAI doesn’t need to spend many resources on safety, and implementing safe AI won’t put it at any competitive disadvantage (important for investors who own most of the company).
5.  Transformative AI will be incredibly valuable for all of humanity in the long term (for public PR and developers).
6.  People at OpenAI have thought long and hard about what will happen, and it will be fine.
7.  We can’t [...]

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 First published:
May 21st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cy99dCEiLyxDrMHBi/what-s-going-on-with-openai-s-messaging

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