OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid
OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an enormous threat. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – and in Altman himself
Lying scumbag liar.
I'm afraid about every person who has power, not only the dumb ones. Either smart people with bad intentions or dumb people with power. The chance that a powerful person is smart and has good intentions is rare.
The only way to get this rich is by exploiting others and almost definitely breaking laws. These people all have a screw loose somewhere.
I'm afraid of both, too, but if I had to choose:
- evil but smart people only harm you when it benefits them
- dumb but good people harm you all the time
As such I see the later as far more dangerous. Although there's an even worse group, that Altman likely belongs to - the dumb but evil ones.
I'm not sure OpenAI has such a big a head start as we think in the field. What they have is a lot of money to train large models but Moore's law is still alive and kicking.