Sam Altman: commitment

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…Yeah, deal. Okay, make him a partner. Okay, OpenAI — you have both a funding and a leadership role in OpenAI. Given the odd sort of event it’s directed at preventing, how do you measure whether your money and time there are well spent? First of all, we’re not directed at preventing an event. We’re directed at making a good event happen more than we are at preventing a negative event. It is where I spend most of my time now. I think building true, superhuman artificial intelligence and figuring out how we, as a collective humanity, decide what the world is going to look like on the other side of that and making sure that it is safe, that we retain autonomy and a governance system we like, and that the benefits of that are equitably distributed in the world is the most important thing to work on. I think that there are parts of it that are scary. There are parts of it that are potential downsides. But the upside of this is unbelievable. We talked about sustainable economic growth is a moral good. I believe at this point, real economic sustainable growth comes from technology, and this technology is going to generate more of it than the sum total that has ever been generated by technology in human history. I think that’s going to be really great. Will cyborgs outcompete AI? If the flesh and blood is the hard part, why not tack on devices to people? Common in movies but also in the real world. I’m wearing eyeglasses. There are hearing aids. You can imagine much more. Isn’t that an easier way to get the work done?…

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