The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the AI Action Summit in Paris in FebruaryBlondet Eliot/Abaca/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process. But when OpenAI was founded a decade ago, the company’s approach to artificial intelligence wasn’t taken seriously in Silicon Valley.
- ▪OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the AI Action Summit in Paris in FebruaryBlondet Eliot/Abaca/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs.
- ▪OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process.
- ▪But when OpenAI was founded a decade ago, the company’s approach to artificial intelligence wasn’t taken seriously in Silicon Valley.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the AI Action Summit in Paris in FebruaryBlondet Eliot/Abaca/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process. But when OpenAI was founded a decade ago, the company’s approach to artificial intelligence wasn’t taken seriously in Silicon Valley. Tech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI’s astounding rise for years and is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. She says that while many in Silicon Valley warn of AI’s sci-fi-like threats, the real risks are already here.
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