Update to my last essay, “What should we learn from OpenAI’s mistakes and broken promises?”
Sam Altman, 2016: “We’re planning a way to allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board. Because if I weren’t in on this I’d be, like, Why do these fuckers get to decide what happens to me?”, quoted in the New Yorker, 2016
OpenAI, May 28, 2024
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What happened to the wide swaths of the world?
To quote Altman himself, “Why do these fuckers get to decide what happens to me?”
Gary Marcus keeps receipts.
🤦♀️ so the new safety committee is Sam sending himself emails saying "this is fine"
Fox. Henhouse.