OpenAI makes a lot of big promises about looking out for humanity's best interests — but forgive us for having some trust issues.
And though it maintains that its goal for its tech is to "ensure that artificial general intelligence... benefits all of humanity," as Altman wrote in that latest blog post, corporate profit and the good of humanity don't always go hand-in-hand.
"There is a misalignment between what the company publicly espouses and how it operates behind closed doors," Karen Haoback in 2020, as noted by Xiang. "Over time, it has allowed a fierce competitiveness and mounting pressure for ever more funding to erode its founding ideals of transparency, openness, and collaboration."
And that, really, is what makes OpenAI so concerning, not to mention disappointing, as a leader in the field. Like any other lucrative market, the tech industry is full of sleazy outfits, run predominantly by sleazy figures. But the reality that it did a total 180 to follow the pot o' goldabout how they're looking out for humanity's best interests is troubling. The old OpenAI wouldn't be the worst-case Dr.
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