Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? by Ross Andersen
On a Monday morning in April, Sam Altman sat inside OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, telling me about a dangerous artificial intelligence that his company had built but would never release. His employees, he later said, often lose sleep worrying about the AIs they might one day release without fully appreciating their dangers. With his heel perched on the edge of his swivel chair, he looked relaxed.
We cannot put much stock into today’s decisions. What people value changes with time. People change out of roles with time. External and internal pressure causes change. The confidence of today is broken by the world around us.
It is always important to consider if some new technology serves humanity or if it seeks for humanity to serve its existence. Tech likes to call the latter “market fit”.