Commentary: OpenAI’s drama marks a new and scary era in artificial intelligence
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, Los Angeles Times
Nov 30, 2023
3 minutes
Sam Altman’s dismissal and rapid reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, confirms that the future of AI is firmly in the hands of people focused on speed and profits, at the expense of all else. This elite will now impose their vision for technology on the rest of humanity. Most of us will not enjoy the consequences.
The founders of OpenAI claimed to be creating a philanthropic organization that would benefit all of humanity or at least is that members of this board were troubled by Altman’s commercial emphasis and the headlong rush to develop new, powerful models of generative artificial intelligence.
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