“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO

OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.

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[RZetopan]

Say this again, louder, for the people in the back! They're flying the plane as they build it!

And they consider falling to be the same as flying, because LLM AI has ZERO intelligence and their plane is not even aerodynamic and only has virtual wings. In short, they are hyping a falling garbage pit as a transonic jetliner and bragging about the increasing rate of fall as approaching their transonic goal. The future looks very bright! But only if you don't look down.

 

[RZetopan]

It is very important to take down every last communist country before automation decimates labor and nearly all jobs are done by AI/robots. If some communist counties still exist they may flourish in this new environment - even with sanctions applied to hobble them. The people in the US may notice that flourishing and it could cause problems.

The kiddie table is over there, they even offer a few nicer fables.

 

[DrewW]

You didn't even cover the weird eye orb thing!

Frankly, I'm not sure what to make of the orb. I have seen one scan an iris IRL and it appears to work. I don't know enough about the coin attached but suspect that's where the scam lives.

Made me wonder what context window the average American has...lol

trump promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years, and doubled it during his first term. Lots of people voted for him again based on fiscal responsibility in 2024. Spoiler alert: the debt has doubled again and DOGE cost more money than it saved. So I'm guessing the average American context window is smaller than four years, or more than three broken political promises (the wall, cheap gas from drill baby drill, and management of the debt are all things Biden actually did more than trump)

 

[DrewW]

It is very important to take down every last communist country before automation decimates labor and nearly all jobs are done by AI/robots. If some communist counties still exist they may flourish in this new environment - even with sanctions applied to hobble them. The people in the US may notice that flourishing and it could cause problems.

What communist country is left? Hint, don't say China.

 

[Nop666]

However, all these public benefits that OpenAI promises can only be realized if we build a “resilient society” that can quickly respond to risky implementations and “keep AI safe, governable, and aligned with democratic values,” the company said.

Even leaving aside how unlikely it is that this scenario could take place under Capitalism, first, Scam Altman's LLM-based "AI" would first have to become profitable, & all the evidence indicates that it never will be.

 

[L0neW0lf]

"The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

Almost?

If you read the New Yorker article, you realize very quickly it isn't "almost"; that one word is someone being very cautious, whomever it is.

I had a bit of trust for a limited number of mid-to-late-nineties startup CEOs; but by and large, almost anyone I saw who was short on engineering and long on executive management has been a "damn the people, full speed ahead" type who is hoping to get profits in (or maybe VC dollars) as long as they can without getting caught.

The fact that Satya Nadella campaigned to keep him on when OpenAI's board attempted to axe him is incredibly telling regarding Microsoft's priorities in this world as well.

 

[Snark218]

This feels like another layer of grift.

"Sam Altman can't be trusted with the power of AI superintelligence" forces us to presuppose that AI superintelligence is a given for it to matter.

It's like when Anthropic publishes a paper talking about how Claude is too smart and on the verge of breaking containment. Somehow safety warnings have become a marketing ploy.

Absolute bullseye. And we are not going to create an AI superintelligence within the next 250 years, if ever.