Altman and Amodei Performed Their Stop-Us-From-Murdering-the-World Routine for the UN
As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to create policies aimed at stopping me. The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday. “We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council during his appearance, according to the Associated Press.
- ▪As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to crea
- ▪The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday.
- ▪“We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council during his appearance, according to the Associated Press.
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As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to create policies aimed at stopping me. The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday. “We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council during his appearance, according to the Associated Press. “We are at a crossroads,” Altman said, according to a transcript on the OpenAI website.
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